Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to prove it when he designed the Malolo, a luxury ship of the Matson Line, and a heaven-sent chance to watch a test case of his theory. On the Malolo's trial run, 26 miles off Nantucket, another Norwegian freighter appeared out of the fog and, as the fascinated Mr. Gibbs watched, crashed into the Malolo amidship. Into the pilothouse rushed Gibbs. He pushed the buttons to operate the sliding bulkhead doors, which should close off the shattered compartment and keep the sea from flooding and sinking the Malolo. Down into the hold he plunged. Green water...
...dense fog somewhere off the St. Lawrence last week the Canadian destroyer Assiniboine, her starboard deck ablaze, rammed and sank a German sub after twelve hours of close-range fighting on the surface. The Canadians saw the Nazi commander killed in his conning tower by a 4.7-inch shell. As the battered Assiniboine closed in to ram, one of its depth charges landed directly on the sub's narrow deck, rolled off, and exploded beneath the surface. The surviving Germans surrendered and were rescued (see cut) as their seawolf sank. The U-boat was, perhaps, the one whose badly...
...forces and ended the ambiguity presented when the demand for a 10,000,000 man army was stacked up against the policy of deferring undergraduates because they were undergraduates. He ended all thoughts of a diploma before an induction notice except for those whose graduation is imminent. But the fog has not lifted--it has only diminished. The path and the destination are clear, the relative worth to the nation of a college graduate and a buck private are set, but the details are yet to emerge...
...steps, of girls in the Yard and high voices along Wig row, they expected you to start all over again as though nothing had happened. A week's respite and the long, grey eternity of the Fall Term would begin again. Long evenings in the House library, rain and fog, November hours, early dusk, tutorial conferences, all stood beckoning ghoulishly...
Says the Rev. Bonaventure Fitzgerald of the medal: "In these days of mental fog we need a spiritual beam to guide our blind flying, and certainly St. Joseph is this." Not only Roman Catholics use the medal. Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of New York commends its "true and human appeal," and Actress Gertrude Lawrence has distributed hundreds of them...