Word: fogged
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...fog that had cloaked the preliminary stages of the debate in an obscure haze of words-neutrality, nonbelligerency, isolation, interventionist, appeaser, warmonger-was blowing away. The almosts, the yes-buts, the cross-cut perplexities were vanishing. The question was becoming a flat question: Yes or No-as it would be presented to Congress...
...sending up trial rumors and tentative untruths, paving the way for a Blitzkrieg in the spring just as they did in the Lowlands in 1940. Such a welter of conflicting reports was abroad in the Balkans last week that the Nazis were actually surprised. "It's a splendid fog," said a happy Berlin spokesman, "and others made...
They flew out of the snow, into fog and rain, then at 6:45 p.m. happily down to a shallow lake on Richard King's Santa Fe Ranch near Edinburg, 80 miles southwest of Corpus Christi. The officers slept in the plane, were found next morning by two cowboys who led them out of the desert brush to the ranch house. Then Murray Hanson learned what happened to the men who had jumped at his order. One was killed; his parachute had been torn from his body. One was unhurt. Three were injured and in hospitals at Big Spring...
...Roosevelt," the Spaniards told us. "It will mean a certain restraint on certain people! We do not want war-but we are oxen, with the yoke around our necks-dreading to be led to a second slaughter." Portugal, too. . . . We drove over the side of a precipice in the fog-only a small rock had saved our car from rolling down the mountainside. In the pitch blackness, a crew of ten workingmen struggled to save our car from destruction, risking their necks on the slippery slope where, at any time, the car might have rolled over on them. Their work...
...Francisco, waves slammed 100 feet beyond high water mark, knocked three houses off their underpinnings. Ten Coastguardsmen who set out to aid a damaged lumber schooner off Fort Bragg soon needed help themselves. They lashed their two small boats together, rode out 40-foot waves in rain and fog for 40 hours before they were rescued...