Word: fogged
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...declare war. A Senate vote to invoke the law had lost, 50 to 41, only a week earlier. Weicker accused both the President and Congress of being unwilling to take a stand on the military situation in the gulf. "Both the Congress and the President would prefer a fog, where if things go wrong, nobody can find you," Weicker charged...
...Seville, never went to Italy and never saw an original Caravaggio in Spain, though he probably knew the copy of Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St. Peter, which had been praised by his teacher in Seville, Francisco Pacheco. The crucified Peter who materializes upside down in a reddish visionary fog to the entranced St. Peter Nolasco in one of Zurbaran's weirder paintings -- an astonishing prophecy of late Dali as well as an echo of Caravaggio -- must have been inspired by that copy...
...command of Army General James Vaught to plan a rescue of the hostages in Tehran. The CIA had no agents there, so the Army organized a Field Operations Group that slipped four intelligence officers into Tehran, where they gathered vital information on the situation at the embassy. Later, FOG members rented trucks in Tehran for the rescue team that was to be flown into Iran by helicopters supplied by the Navy. All for naught: the mission was scrubbed in April 1980 because of a helicopter malfunction at the landing site, and one chopper crashed into a cargo plane...
...fact that I once worked for the Marx brothers, then let us find some other publisher." James Agee and Dorothy Parker were friends of Perelman's, but readers would never know it from his keyhole view of the beach house the two shared: "They both exist in a fog of crapulous laundry, stale cigarette smoke, and dirty dishes, sans furniture or cleanliness; one suspects they wet their beds...
...Rotterdam in late June. Canadian authorities were uncertain whether the immigrants, who paid from $1,200 to $2,500 in Canadian funds for the trip, boarded the ship in the Dutch port or were picked up en route. What they did learn is that by taking advantage of fog that blanketed the coast, the ship's acting skipper, Castor Lasalle, had managed to ease the Amelie inshore. After pleading guilty to violating immigration laws, Nygren was sentenced to a year in jail and Singh to three months. Lasalle got a 30-day jail term...