Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week dusk had shrouded the flatlands as the Pennsylvania's 5:10 express (the Broker) pulled out of Jersey City, crowded with standees. Veteran Engineer Joseph Fitzsimmons roared through a light ground fog. Ahead of him lay a spur. It was newly installed, had been opened only that afternoon. It swung gently off to the right, crossed a temporary trestle over an underpass, then paralleled the regular track to allow for construction of a new bridge for the Jersey Turnpike project...
...seen so many photographs of the Duke of Windsor, I did not have to look at more, but I did look at the Wally Simpson of today, and because I do believe in destiny, I put them on the same canvas with a rock and a fog as separation. The two people already there waiting for each other...
...fog of the present uncertainty," Conant said, "two facts stand out: we are not engaged in a global war; the nation is not committed to total mobilization." This, he foresaw, will be the state of the country for many a year to come, and educational institutions should not suspend their normal functions and set aside plans for innovations as they did after Pearl Harbor...
Reader response was immediate and varied-and free. An Arkansas lawyer recommended that doctors use the juice of green walnut hulls, which had cured his grandson. A Brooklyn insecticide company asked permission to fog the whole town with a special germicide. One company wanted to send 500 cases of ringworm medicine. Dozens of firms offered cures. Some sent doctors to study the epidemic and supervise treatment...
Over the Crest. The track soon grew so steep that the men had to climb on their hands and knees. Only fog-filtered moonlight lit their way. Temperatures fell below freezing. By the time they reached the 10,000-ft. level, ten of the volunteers had dropped out. José Vélaz, with his grey head bare and a towel wound round his neck, pressed on through a whipping gale. At 12,000 ft., the ranger led him over a crest. Below lay the shattered fragments of the DC-3 and 31 bodies, the boys and their air crew...