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Word: fogs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just before dawn, and a cold fog hung over the marshes below Klamath Falls, Ore. Two men squatted in a crude blind. At 6:23 a.m., a flight of canvasback ducks wheeled confidently in. Muttered one of the men: "They got wrist watches on ... they know it's too early for shooting." The hunters inhaled cigarettes, took a nip from a bottle of bourbon, and waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fine Weather for Ducks | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...swollen orange moon, hanging low in the sky like a Chinese lantern, peered fitfully through the clammy fog. It was a raw night, and Parisians pulled their coats tightly around them as they hurried back to unheated homes. Beside me, huddled in muffler and tattered topcoat, Anatole Carvin, 61, sat on a rickety stool and hawked his roast chestnuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: So Little Time | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Police Are with Us." The fog was lifting as demonstrators streamed toward the Avenue de Wagram, coming on foot, silently and purposefully, from all directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: So Little Time | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...fact . . . only one loss which we must steel ourselves to . . . and that is the Hollywood version of life in Great Britain. And what a loss it is! Never again to see that enchanted or at any rate transmogrified land, wrapped almost all the year round in a dense fog-that will indeed be a deprivation. It was a land which we had all learned to love . . . it had a quaint, dreamlike charm all of its own. Its House of Commons (in which Sir Aubrey Smith almost always sat, often as a duke), though generally rather smaller than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: England, Their England | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...aristocracy were, though not particularly powerful, numerous and, though stupid, generally condescending; they often had beautiful American daughters. They lived in castles of the very largest size and were much addicted to . . . foxhunting. This was normally carried on in the height of summer (fog being perhaps less prevalent at that season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: England, Their England | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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