Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night, the engineer who talked in Munich last week was at the throttle, driving a train of tank cars for Russia through a thick fog after 18 straight hours on the job. At last he dozed off. An alert switchman dropped a warning torpedo underneath his wheels in time to avoid a collision, but the young engineer was promptly arrested for sabotage. This is the rest of the story as he told...
...Cold fog, followed by freezing rain and falling temperature, reduced front-line fighting last week to its lowest scale since early October. On the frigid ridges of the central front, where the rain had put a glazed crust on four inches of fresh snow, the temperature dropped to 3° below zero. Enemy patrols were observed in white-clad camouflage. In a pre-dawn snowstorm, the Reds captured some frozen foxholes near "Old Baldy," slipped away after trading machine-gun fire with the allies for an hour...
...days if military money had not been so plentiful. He consulted continually with Collins (usually in a pub), and whenever he suggested adding another tube, Collins complained that he didn't want a cheaper radar, he wanted a really cheap one that would land planes effectively in the fog...
...Ekco Approach Aid is now in legal operation at Southend Airport, where it was used successfully during the record fog that plagued Britain early this month. The R.A.F. has ordered 25 sets, and the U.S. armed services are interested...
...explain away the half-empty Konzerthaus, the Communists blamed fog, rain and Vienna's lack of taxis, but nothing could conceal the hollowness of the Communist claims to have a peace program, not even the tirade of abuse directed at America. Specimen (by North Korean delegate Madame Kang Yang Sun): U.S. soldiers in Korea knifed out the eyes of Korean children and forced their mothers to eat them, cut open the body of a pregnant woman and extracted the embryo and sliced it before the eyes of the dying mother...