Word: fogged
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...find a newborn star because outer regions of the collapsing cloud hide the new star within. Ordinary light cannot penetrate the haze. The long-wavelength infrared and radio waves produced by a warming embryonic star can pierce it, however, just as a radar signal can cut through the densest fog...
Officially, the FAA blames the weather for 70% of this year's delays -- frequent fog and thunderstorms have plagued the busy Northeast, and other storms assaulted the Midwest. Any weather hitch quickly gets amplified in the prevailing system of hub airports, in which large airlines attract commuter feeders to major cities. A significant delay at one hub quickly affects ( connecting flights there and spreads to other centers...
...Canadian Coast Guard vessel Leonard Cowley is en route to the site to transfer the victims and take them to St. John's or another suitable port, Whitehead said. Heavy fog was reported in the area...
...promising component of the system, which the Army originally balked at including, is the so-called FOG-M (for fiber-optic guided missile), a groundlaunched missile with a television camera in the nose. Steered toward its target by an operator who sees through a gossamer fiber-optic thread that spins out from behind as the missile flies, the weapon's 6-lb. warhead spells almost certain destruction to an enemy tank...
...called him "our greatest thriller writer," and in fact he and Greene invented the modern novel of intrigue, with its moral ambiguities and flawed, bone-weary protagonists. But the prolific Greene stayed in view. Ambler spent years between books and, like one of his characters, eventually slipped into the fog...