Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sung. "You go ten days without writing a column about how great the city is," says Caen, "and you start getting letters saying 'you don't love us any more.' " His most popular columns in the Examiner (circ. 246,186) are the periodic panegyrics he calls "fog creeping through the bridge" pieces; in them he ranges rhapsodically from the hills (he claims there are 30) to the weather (which he says beats sex as the city's "Topic A"). He even manages to extol such dubious assets as the city's sky-high alcoholism rate...
...very well, chiefly because of crude instruments and because the effect of ocean currents was often unknown. But if a ship could have measured accurately its motion across the solid ocean bottom instead of the fluid surface, dead reckoning would have brought it to any harbor through the thickest fog...
...will be governed by the principle of calculated risk," Nimitz told his task force commanders, Rear Admirals Raymond A. Spruance and Frank Jack Fletcher, who well knew that the three carriers were about all that stood between the Japanese and California. Not far away, gliding serenely through a fog bank amid their great escort, the Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu prepared for their strike...
...thick fog made an extensive search impossible on Sunday, and the two spent the night in the hut. They located Flint's body yesterday morning, about a third of a mile away. Flint had apparently fallen to his death during a rainstorm the day before...
...motives makes A Moon soft as well as enfeebled. There is no tumble and toss of sick, bitter, angry, thwarted, even petrified emotions. Everywhere there is a sense of O'Neill's honest compassion, but nowhere is there anything incandescently imagined or inextinguishably remembered. Words fumble through fog, or have a dated slanginess which, lacking all poetry, sinks almost to parody...