Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been sitting attentively on an elevated platform at the back of the stage, behind the piano. As Yevtushenko bellowed the unballasted "Pitching and Rolling," the angelic choir, clad in bell bottoms, backed him up with seastorm voices. They took to hooting and whistling while Yevtushenko writhed in the fog of 20th Century pain, a favorite theme of his. Then the chorus began to chant "push-and-shout, push-and-shout, zig-zag, zig-zag" and they howled an assortment of animal groans. This was done in a kind of dialogue with Yevtushenko and Barry Boys who at some point began...
...alcoholic fog hovered over President's House in Rawalpindi six weeks ago when Pakistan's General Yahya Khan handed over the reins of power to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As one Pakistani official says of the general: "He was far too drunk to say anything about anything to Bhutto...
...said Sadat, an Israeli armored brigade was sighted edging up to the Suez Canal in what looked like an attempt to cross it. Nasser ordered Egyptian bombers to crush the supposed attack. "Unfortunately," Sadat explained, "they were unable to spot their targets because of fog that had gathered over the whole area. The fog spoiled everything...
Even the most gullible of Egyptians found that hard to swallow; seldom if ever has the Suez had any fog in the blistering month of July, when the otherwise unrecorded incident supposedly took place. Round the capital, Sadat's TV appearance quickly became known as the "Fog Speech." Three days after it was delivered, a professor at the Ein Shams University in suburban Heliopolis sarcastically lectured at a student meeting about "fog over Egypt." Hundreds of Ein Shams' 38,000 students rapidly took part in teach-ins. Before long, protests spread across town to Cairo University, where vocal...
...least when perceived from an armchair, is morally instructive. A repeated theme is that of pride brought low. The star of the American-owned Collins Line was the Arctic, an opulent sidewheeler launched in 1850. The ship was four years old when, steaming at full speed through fog over the Grand Banks, freighted with "manhood in its strength and daring, and woman in her trust and beauty, and youth with its sunny gladness," as a preacher wrote later, the Arctic collided with a small iron-hulled French steamship and sank. Crew members commandeered all but one of the lifeboats...