Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smog is just a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce weasel word. Fog does not enter it. The stuff is just plain smoke...
...made public the report of a four-man commission appointed to study the Guiana crisis. Its conclusion: "Conditions for sound constitutional advance do not exist in British Guiana today." The report was harshly candid (said the Manchester Guardian: "To read it is like walking into a lamppost in the fog"), and argued that the colony's dominant political organization, the Red-ridden People's Progressive Party, was bent on destroying the constitution after first using its privileges to win unlimited one-party rule. For their activities protesting London's steps against the P.P.P., its leader, Cheddi Jagan...
...started to climb Mt. Fox but were forced to turn back because of bad weather--a mixture of snow, rain and fog," Gerhard said yesterday. "At 5:30 p.m. we were descending a gully of dirt and rocks when Jim yelled a warning and I looked up and saw hundreds of rocks falling down the gully, moving at a very high speed...
...schooner St. Roch (TIME, Aug. 2), commanded by Mountie Superintendent Henry A. Larsen, in 1942 became the first vessel to make the passage from west to east. But both Amundsen and Larsen sailed through Prince of Wales Strait, detouring around the broader, more direct but more northerly western exit: fog-shrouded, ice-choked McClure Strait...
...Movements may be as formless as a shifting fog, as destructive as a stream of lava, as senseless as a panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in one direction. It is a movement of churches toward their own center, a concentration of Christendom on Christ. Because we see through a glass darkly, because we get in each other's way a good deal, because we are sinners and because we are involved in the world...