Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this reason, it is important that the President and State Department be especially careful not to act rashly. A break of diplomatic relations with Russia would be an ill-advised act, at this time above all others, when we must do everything we can to peer through the fog that surrounds Russian policy, and be ready to make the most of possibilities for peace. Now if ever there is a need for cool heads and complete, accurate information for them to work on, not only in the State Department, but in the nation as a whole...
...Before me, filling the East and the South of East, there lay a latitude of fog, a world of it, and out of the expanse of vapor there shone a glare this side of the sun, now rising in obscurity; and from the region of this singular light came the crying of the waters...
...After victory, what then?" asked the Foreign Secretary. His answers, still vague as a Solent fog...
...what irked correspondents most was not censorship: it was the dark fog of secrecy in which the Government carried on its war. When war began, Canada set up a Bureau of Information to handle official news, then suddenly abandoned it, let each Government department appoint its own press officers. Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who had never liked press conferences anyhow (he once complained: "My every word is seized upon!"), promptly abolished them...
...trim, single-funneled, 5,809-ton German freighter, deep grey and black, slipped quietly out of Kiel, nosed through cold, thick fog toward the Norwegian coast, headed at top speed (eleven knots) into the teeth of the North Sea blockade. She was the commerce raider Wolf, commanded by stocky, hand some, canny Karl August Nerger. Cunningly concealed behind hinged steel side she carried a wicked assortment of 5.1 guns, torpedo tubes, machine guns, 45: mines. Her orders: to mine the chief British colonial ports...