Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stayed on the U.N.'s agenda, and Secretary-General Hammarskjold went right to work on arrangements for further negotiations to put real meat on the bare bones of principle. The agreement was too vague to promise solid chance of a settlement, and in Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser cast fog on the most important of the six principles by asking: "What does Mr. Dulles mean by 'insulating the canal from politics?' The canal still runs through Egypt." The week's events, however, could be counted a broad step toward conciliation and away from the recent angry moment...
...fatal July 25 Andrea Doria was steaming westbound at 23 knots from Genoa to New York when, about 3 p.m., some 175 miles off Nantucket, she ran into thick fog, testified Captain Calamai. He personally took command of the bridge, cut speed to 21.8 knots, ordered automatic fog warnings sounded at 1½-minute intervals (audible at a distance of four miles). Around 8 p.m. his second and third mates came on watch, joining him on the bridge. He hung closely within a few degrees of the westbound lane of Track Charlie, the "informal" sea lane marked...
...When Stockholm was two miles off and still closing, Calamai and his third officer walked to the starboard wing of the bridge. "Why don't we hear him?" asked the third officer. "Why doesn't he whistle?" Not until Stockholm was about one mile off through the fog, Calamai testified, did the third officer see through his binoculars a "glow" of white light...
...Encouraged by the superb defensive play of 240-lb. Tackle Proverb Jacobs, California's twice-beaten Golden Bears pushed favored Pitt all over Berkeley's fog-shrouded Memorial Stadium, upset the Panthers...
...about the tensions of race relations, a subject that a South African writer like 32-year-old Nadine Gordimer (The Lying Days) can no more evade than a tongue can skirt a newly empty tooth socket. Author Gordimer's tactic is to blanket both races in a fog of routinely benevolent relationships and then lift it suddenly, revealing the complacent whites standing on the edge of an emotional abyss. A kindly farming couple find a strange black boy dead of pneumonia. He proves to be an out-of-bounds native, and they suddenly learn that for months their farmhands...