Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fog, snow, night and, above all, naval secrecy obscured the problem. Britain's "heavy stuff" (battleships and battle cruisers) lay over the horizon in the North Sea waiting for cruisers to call the cues. Cruisers in turn waited for destroy ers, airplanes, submarines to set the stage...
...guns, tanks in or near the Canal Zone. But last January the U. S. Navy showed George Marshall and many another Army man what a foe might do with aircraft carriers. In joint Army-Navy practice off the West Coast, U. S. Navy planes flew at will over the fog-bound mainland, "demolished" every Army aircraft base in the game, flew gaily back to their carriers outside the fog area. Meantime, Army bombers and defensive planes were helpless on the ground, unable to take off because they would have had to land in the fog. George Marshall returned to Washington...
Certainly the week's activities had all the fog and confusion of a great military defeat. Important missions wound up in blind alleys or off in an entirely different direction. Important people were reported in one place, turned up in another. Amateur diplomats pinch-hit for professionals. Forgotten veterans found themselves dragged from retirement to undertake the gravest responsibilities. For almost a week almost nobody knew what in the world was going...
...breath came to France last week. Horse racing resumed at Auteuil. British Tommies whipped the French Poilus 36-to-3 at rugby. At the stalemated fighting front, bright skies encouraged reconnaissance flights by both sides, to see what new dispositions the enemy had made during weeks of freeze and fog. For the troops in outpost zones ahead of the Maginot Line and Westwall, patrol duty became more frequent and arduous, first stations busier...
...selfishly climbs to stardom with the help of Charles Laughton, is Scarlett O'Hara's little sister under the grease paint. Smart Director Tim Whelan (Clouds over Europe) succeeds in making the atmosphere so realistically London that U. S. cinemaddicts have some trouble getting through the dialectical fog...