Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Britons thought that invasion would not be attempted until spring; but there was nothing to prove that intermittent glassy, fog-brushed calms of late autumn and winter would not make pretty invading weather. This week Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell, onetime chief of the Imperial General Staff, warned that the invasion might come during the winter-that the Germans had a precedent in Moltke's winter attack on Denmark in 1864. Because a politico-military offensive was shaping up farther south did not mean that an offensive could not be simultaneously launched in the north...
Next day the train rolled on to Youngstown. In the chill morning, with a light fog rolling down the valley, the caravan was under way at 9 a.m. through quiet crowds that welled into one enormous throng in Public Square, roofed tenuously by vast webs of paper streamers. Willkie spoke simply, clearly, effectively. The crowd loved...
Last week fog settled down a little closer around the darkling Axis. Herbert L. Matthews, Rome correspondent of the New York Times, one of the last newspapermen who contrived to cable anything from an Axis capital besides official communiques, was given ten days in which to get out of Italy...
Said Sheean: "I was told that the fog rolling in over the beach was synthetic. I don't know whose fog it was-whether the Germans were trying it out or the British were practicing...
...Evening Standard "Diary' mouthpiece of its publisher, Britain's Aircraft Production Minister, sounded a note of self-pity: "As surely as the calendar itself, asthma marches on its appointed course. Better than the barometer, asthma foretells the end of sunshiny days and the onset of fog and mist and damp. An example of what I mean is Lord Beaverbrook. Until a few days ago, he was still a free man. Today asthma has laid its harsh hand as firmly on him as a gaoler receiving an old prisoner back after a brief release...