Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just after the Eisenhower legislative program hit cruising speed on Capitol Hill last fortnight, it ran into fog and head winds in both the House and the Senate. On six bills the Administration suffered telling setbacks, all of them affecting major Eisenhower policies...
...hour later, after dusk and fog had settled in over Barnau, a West German border guard on routine patrol found the weapons carrier parked a bare six feet from the border. The G.I.s were nowhere in sight. "Neither a shot nor a passionate discussion" had been heard, the border guard reported. The passionate discussion came next day. Usually, unarmed strays from either side are herded back without argument. But this time a Czech major said that his government would swap the Americans for three Czechoslovak forestry workers who had fled to Germany seeking asylum on June 30. The Communists appeared...
...lantern-bearing Dr.Clodowitz, sovereign-stuffed Titus van Claben-such characters are engraved in the memory for keeps. No visitor since Thomas Wolfe has described London with such off-beat perception and passion-not the London the tourist or the Briton has ever seen, but the insane metropolis "painted like fog with some yellow and raspberry added" that Cèline alone is capable of seeing...
...Fog of War. In Montgomery, Ala., asked in court why he had slugged a woman during a tavern brawl. Rube Wainwright explained: "I thought she was my wife...
...Audar" can sound off in dark or fog and measure the distance to nearby objects. Its noise generator can be used as a foghorn; its amplifier and speaker can be used as a powerful bullhorn for talking with neighboring craft; its speaker can also serve as a sensitive microphone, picking up the sound of surf or bell buoys for the helmsman. Price: about...