Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above the German Supreme Court his own death-dealing Volksgerricht, and occasionally someone's head gets chopped off before the fact is known to other than a few Nazi bigwigs. That the head of Simple Richard Roiderer was still upon his shoulders, after ten months in the fog of Nazidom's New Justice, was recently ascertained and he was brought from Munich to Berlin with a cut over his left eye and a large, reddish scab on the bridge of his nose...
...great lover of the aeronautical world, goes back to work for Federal Air Lines at Newark, where he disrupts a pure romance between a hostess and the chief pilot, is partly responsible for a friend's fatal crash and at last goes out to die heroically in a fog over the Alleghenies. All this is accompanied by a buzz of ribaldry and shop talk (a program glossary explains that "cotton," "dirt," "gloom," "goo" and "bird-walking weather" all mean fog) from an assorted crew of mechanics, Government inspectors, plane manufacturers, insurance adjusters and fliers presided over by saturnine Osgood...
...broadcasting stations. Estimated useful range of the Kruesi Compass over water was 700 mi., out-&-out maximum 1,500 mi. The windowless Douglas, manned by Army blind flying experts, took a "feeler" trip out over the Pacific, located several ships by radio, flew back through blinding fog with perfect accuracy...
...plane made one three-hour flight yesterday, starting at 4:56 a.m. It soared 170 miles out over the Pacific through fog banks, contacting ships to establish its course. Then, with its windows blackened to give complete "blind flying" conditions, it took off at 1:45 p.m. for another seaward flight, returning...
...down there," the experienced bottom-saunterer continued. "I shove myself around on my stomach in ever widening circles--my technique would shame the most adroit pollywog. The clouds of mud I stir up make using a light about as useful as trying to shine it through a thick London fog. You can't see anything and if you're not careful to keep your suit full of air, you will squash up into your helmet...