Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began auspiciously enough with her storybook arrival last week at St. John's, Nfld., when menacing fog banks, which had clung for days to the airport, rolled back in time for the Queen's Comet to land. While a 21-gun salute boomed away, the Queen and Prince Philip were greeted by Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. In St. John's, the royal couple bore out advance notices that their visit would be comfortably informal by mingling with the crowd and chatting briefly with ordinary citizens...
...clear the fog of conflicting claims surrounding the steel negotiations, President Eisenhower last week considered having the Government prepare its own "impartial" statistics for the public's guidance. But the Labor Department and other Government agencies quickly let it be known that they wanted no part of the job. Reason: they know that even statistics on such an apparently simple factor as productivity are open to wide interpretation. No matter what figures the Government settled on, federal economists feel, they would favor one side or the other, add heat rather than light to the debate between management and labor...
Died. Sax Rohmer (pen name for Arthur Sarsfield Ward), about 76, creator of 20th century English fiction's most durable villain: Fu Manchu; after long illness ; in London. Modeled on a mysterious Chinese Rohmer spotted one night in 1913 in the Limehouse fog, wily, sinister Fu Manchu outwitted his Anglo-Saxon pursuers in and out of 13 books and the most exotic parts of the world, assembled a memorable team of Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly...
Primary piece of equipment used to combat the fire was a high pressure fog system which pumped water under 800 pounds pressure. The two ladder trucks were in order to open skylights...
Barzun invites all "genuine intellectuals" to take arms against the "liberal" teachers'-college products who have "a special language, a flatulent Newspeak, which combines self-righteousness with permanent fog . . ." In a sonorous exhortation, Author Barzun invites readers to remember that spelling and adding-the alphabet and mathematics-are the foundations of all learning and reason, and that the U.S. shakes them at its peril...