Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...logistical exercise, Big Lift was a triumph. Despite occasionally impenetrable ground fog in Germany and Hurricane Ginny's winds off the Southeastern U.S., the Air Force flew 236 missions, toted 459.6 tons of combat gear, logged 13,000 flying hours and burned up 6,500,000 gallons of fuel-all without mishap...
...local tribesmen have long avoided fog-shrouded Mount Nimba in Western Liberia as a spot inhabited by duwa -the sinister "little people" who have old men's faces and feet that turn backward. But Scottish Geologist Sandy Clark, a more prosaic fellow, found no such world of spirits when he scaled Nimba eight years ago. He found something almost as extraordinary: "a world of iron ore"-one of the largest reserves of high-grade ore (at least 260 million tons) ever discovered...
...dank, filthy, crowded (on the Negro side, fourteen and sixteen people in cells made for four) Albany jail, the struggle to stay merely human had obscured the social battle. Once free, a sense of the complete futility of our suffering settled down upon us like a heavy, enervating fog...
Antitank Guns. Moving onto Georges Bank off Cape Cod and the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, proliferating Russian trawlers snag American nets, ram smaller boats in the fog and often force fishermen right off the banks; in Alaska, fishermen recently became so furious about Russian trawlers pulling their crab pots that they began ordering antitank guns to mount on their decks, were dissuaded only by a flying visit from Alaska Governor William...
Many vital problems never reach Livingston Street. Requests to fix a falling ceiling vanish in a Byzantine fog. It may take years to get an updated syllabus in math or science. Everyone has horror stories about "The System," including Superintendent Gross, the highly skilled administrator who arrived from Pittsburgh last spring to try to bring order out of chaos. "I know one girl who was in the building for six hours just looking for someone to find a job application for teaching," says Gross with cool fury. "I'm going to humanize this system if I have to turn...