Word: foggiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expenses. But it was a critical hit in the Washington press and a hit for the new regime (nine months) of Library Director Dr. Louis B. Wright, 50, a go-getter with a passion for enlarging the Folger's usefulness. Said he: "I haven't the foggiest idea of sitting up with a corpse or running a mausoleum...
...broad-shouldered Boston politician and onetime Massachusetts governor, whose frame and fitness gives him the look of a retired first-baseman. Tobin had been sent up to Capitol Hill to defend the Administration's slightly blurred substitute for the Taft-Hartley Act (TIME, Feb. 7). One of its foggiest points was whether the President would have the right to an injunction to stop strikes which imperiled the national welfare-a right clearly stated in the Taft-Hartley Act. Attorney General Tom Clark sent along his opinion that such a right was "inherent in the presidency...
...Humboldt Bay in northern California lies Arcata, the "world's foggiest airport." Arcata is "socked in" by rain or fog so often (97 days a year) that the U.S. armed forces have made it a base for their all-weather flying experiments, equipped the field with blind landing instruments (both G.C.A. and I.L.S.) and Fido (fog-dispersing oil burners). Through the soup over Arcata one day last December, a Southwest Airways DC-3 made the world's first blind landing with all three systems on a scheduled commercial run. Since then, Southwest, a ten-plane "feeder" line between...
...passion, he did manage to portray individual loneliness in a mechanized society and the conflicts of a world torn, between accumulation of money and development of personality. But what did Wolfe mean by his affirmation that "we shall be found?" Wolfe was himself lost; he had only the foggiest notions about modern science and modern thought and throughout his life he indulged in cracker-barrel sneering at intellectuals. He was a confused boy with a great gift for language, whose significance as a writer was, as critic Alfred Kazin put it, "that he expanded his boyhood into a lifetime...
...Once they were strung out around the big brick-&-asphalt saucer, the drivers had not the foggiest notion of their relative position in the race. They relied, as speedway drivers must, on the mechanics in the pit for information, pace instructions, fuel, repairs. Unlike the racehorse owner, who can only watch after his thoroughbred takes the track, Car Owner Lou Moore stood in the pit, busy, nervous, efficient...