Word: fogging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only out of their desperate desire to believe but also because they do not accept the government's word as final. The Pentagon's bureaucratic bumbling, secretiveness and mixed signals have led some families to feel there is a conspiracy to conceal the truth. To try to dispel that fog, a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee will soon investigate whether there is truth in any of the sightings reports and why the Pentagon seems so unresponsive...
...blanket set on the cold, damp ground. The eldest, a boy of seven, has a vacant look in his eyes, and he twitches every few seconds, like someone lost beyond the edge of pain. His younger brother and sister gaze at him, then look quickly away, a fog of panic filling their eyes as they contemplate their mad brother, the gloom of the tent, their possessions reduced to a teapot, a blanket and a few ragged clothes. Omar, their father, clears his throat and volunteers, "The boy, he has been like that since the bombing. He is disturbed, I think...
Beneath the fog of high-minded arguments put forth by those for and against naming, it was sometimes difficult to know precisely what was being debated: the right to privacy, freedom of the press, the most effective way to prosecute sex crimes, pumping up circulation, or all -- or none -- of the above...
...Fog and drizzle enshrouded the half-full Boeing 727 during its 35-minute flight from New York to Boston, but Rudenstine's spirits seemed to be anything but dampened...
...least a few more hours before another inversion occurs. As the air grows more polluted, however, environmentalists fear the creation of a lethal inversion that remains fixed for days -- like the one that killed 20 people in the smokestack town of Donora, Pa., in 1948 or the killer fog that claimed the lives of 4,000 people in London in 1952. Even with the closure of the Azcapotzalco refinery, both Mexico's government and its industry will have to work harder at controlling pollution for years to come before the people of Mexico City can breathe easier...