Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN THE SKY is very clear over Ambleteuse, you can see Dover's cliffs over the Channel. But when the fog rolls in off the ocean every night, there is one hour of limbo when no one can see anything. The fog comes in with the high tide, which is often with the dusk...
...stragglers can see the wide swathe of light cast onto the fog. The men already there order another Pernod and wait. Their wives will not close the shutters or put out dinner until the fog breaks. The priest in the chapel rings the angelus against the swing of the tide, a tinny sound amid the din. He waits for the fog to lift so the people in the town, carrying their flashlights through the streets, can come to evening mass...
THAT MORNING we returned to the house, picking up stones and shells from the beach on the way. He mumbled a little, but he seemed quieter and his anger subsided away from the roar of the waves and the people on the beach. At sunset, though, I heard the tide turn, and I thought of the fog. I looked around and he was gone...
...crisis on the miners. The theme of Heath's Conservative Party campaign is "Who runs the country, the elected government or militant trade unions?" Heath, following the lead of Nixon and Joe McCarthy, is trying to pass the whole thing off as a communist plot in hopes that the tide of public opinion will be turned against the strikers...
Pass/fail emerged in the late 1960s, washed in by the tide of student protest against "the System." Recalls Northwestern University Graduate School Dean Robert H. Baker: "Students all felt some years ago that it was a degrading experience to be compared with all other human beings in ability, interest and performance...