Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more help from their allies, they gave Wendell Willkie the biggest reception yet. It was bigger than Jawaharlal Nehru got in 1939, than Lauchlin Currie got in 1941. Even the Japanese contributed: Japanese scouting planes, looking for Willkie, nosed toward Chungking for three days running, but ran into fog before they reached the capital...
...great leader to have during the blitz. His personality was all roast beef and there was something of the thick British fog in the voice that uttered the inspiring words. When Winston Churchill donned his flat-topped bowler and walked among the bomb craters, the people felt that they were seeing the very image of a modern, improved, but deeply traditional and indomitable John Bull. His crusty vigor also suggested the coat of mail of a new St. George, fronting the snorting dragon, Hitler ("that wicked...
...thinks about is getting his chickens home," said Admiral Boddam-Whetham's brother, an official in the British fuel ministry (three other brothers died in the army in World War I). "Being a sailor, he fears fog and ice more than any U-boat or Focke-Wulf. He is very reserved and hates to talk about himself...
...marketing. Behind him were almost 40 years in the navy as commander of various destroyers and of the battleship Queen Elizabeth. Five weeks after retirement he was back in uniform, assigned chiefly to duty on the perilous Arctic convoy route, where his sailor's fear of fog and ice found ample justification...
Another who faces into the fog is Sportswriter Charles P. Ward of the Detroit Free Press. "The truth is," he says, "that they [the club owners] are worried and uncertain about the future. The calling off of the annual meeting of the minor leagues at the Government's suggestion is taken as an indication of the trend. The minor-league convention was one of the most important in baseball, for that is the session at which most big trades are made. The big-league session may be next...