Word: misting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physical characteristics (thickset physiques, sloping foreheads, receding chins) and observing that they were an aberrant strain, extinct 50,000 years ago. With the skill of an artist (and not, as is often the case in attempts of this kind, a taxidermist), Golding re-creates the Neanderthals and the dawn mist in which they lived. To the eye they are stubby, smallish, powerful near apes, covered with reddish fur. But they are dimly intelligent, although their minds do not work like those of Homo sapiens. In addition to the simple tools and religion that archaeology dictates, Golding gives them a rude...
Long ago, the Israeli government had decided that to bury Eichmann's remains would mean desecrating Israeli soil. So, in a nickel container, Eichmann's ashes were taken 18 miles out to sea aboard an Israeli patrol boat and, as the sun rose over the mist-hung Mediterranean, scattered to the winds and water...
...graduation from high school, studying acting and directing at California's Pasadena Playhouse. He moved to Phoenix to sell insurance, next turned to radio, magazine and screenplay writing. For years he has run Phoenix's S-K Research Laboratories, a small pharmaceutical house (a chief product: Adreno-Mist. a relief for asthma). All the while, he has been active in the Protestant Episcopal Church; last year, he was elected to its National Council. Shadegg got into politics in 1938, managing the campaign of a Democratic candidate for Maricopa County sheriff. In 1950 he ran his first statewide campaign...
...Juliette returns, after a week on the land during which she met only mountebanks, cripples and beggars. Like Persephone coming back from the underworld, she rejoins the crew of L'Atalante; she has come to her own milieu, which now seems more real, larger and more natural than the mist-hidden landscape of the riverbanks that glide so swiftly...
...could catch a breeze or a mist; a storm demanded something more robust. The oils to which Marin turned retained the fluidity of his watercolors, but they often achieved a deeper intensity...