Word: squalls
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Auden's shipboard squall may have been uncharacteristic, but it should clearly be given more biographical weight than his social calendar. Yet Auden's reticence about himself may hamper all potential biographers. To his lasting credit, he believed that the dark demons could be hedged in by civility, and he acted on this belief: "A suffering, a weakness, which cannot be expressed as an aphorism should not be mentioned." His love poem "Lullaby" is beautiful and moving precisely because of its reasoned equivocations, its rational tethers on emotion...
...within a couple of years by the U.S. Congress, acting on recommendations from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Meanwhile, three downbound boats, led by U.S. Steel's Roger M. Blough (named for the company's former chief), plough past, distant shapes blurred by a sudden snow squall. The Blough is 858 ft. long and very efficient at lugging a payload of taconite pellets in a straight line. Negotiating the harrowing turns of the ice-clogged shipping channel, though, is not the strong suit of the Blough or of any lengthy ore carrier. Shepherding the flotilla of three...
...been an outtake from The Spy Who Came In from the Cold or Funeral in Berlin: a young East German defector huddling with his wife and their small child in the gloom of a nearly deserted S-Bahn platform in East Berlin, waiting nervously through an early evening snow squall for the elevated train that will carry them to safety in West Berlin. The defector was Werner Stiller, 31, a lieutenant in East Germany's dreaded secret police and espionage agency. Miller had been working as a spy for West Germany. Now, following orders from Bonn's counterintelligence...
Bursting out of a squall at 16 knots, a vast wall of steel pulverizes a small sailboat and steams blithely on. The million-ton megatanker Leviathan, biggest moving object on the face of the earth, leaves Peter and Carolyn Hardin floundering in the chill Atlantic. He survives; she does not. Dr. Hardin is ravaged by the death of his wife and half crazed over his inability to win redress or even acknowledgment of what he regards as murder. But he is rich, a skillful sailor and a brilliant technician. In another boat, a 38-ft. sloop he renames Carolyn, equipped...
...selecting a list of names for the following year's hurricanes. Some representatives are expected to object to the change out of masculine pride. But others might propose French and Spanish names for reasons of national pride. By comparison, the debate over gender could be only a passing squall...