Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroyer H.M.C.S. Micmac, 2,300 tons, bounded home to Halifax, spirits were high. The morning's "wups"* had been successful. Sailors lazed on upper decks, chatted about a forthcoming Atlantic cruise. Ahead, inside Sambro lightship, lay dense patches of fog, but that was nothing to worry about. The Micmac's radar was the most modern afloat. She sounded her klaxon, stepped briskly into a fog bank at 20 knots...
Suddenly, looming out of the fog, her captain saw above him the huge bow of a freighter. His thin-skinned warship plunged headlong into the 10,000-ton Yarmouth County, outbound at a cautious eight knots. Fifty feet of the Micmac's port bow was peeled back like the lid of a sardine can. Jagged steel ripped through the arms and legs of seamen dozing on their mess deck. Crashing steel girders pinned others to the deck...
...nervous yawn started by Steelman floated around the table. Mason at last introduced Sir Frederick with a reference to "the fog about the two FBIs." Sir Frederick, in a high-pitched stammer, replied with some verse that praised Queen Elizabeth for having "stayed in town while London Bridge was falling down." Then, shifting from one foot to the other, he spoke of international trade as "the one thread from which the fabric of peace and security in the world must be woven...
Chicago-born Defendant Chandler had been an officer in the U.S. Navy in World War I, worked as a newspaperman in Baltimore. He had married a wealthy woman. In 1931, ruined by the depression, he left the U.S., talking bitterly of the "unAmerican fog spreading over the land from the swamp of imported Jewish-Bolshevik subversion." With his wife and two small daughters, he had settled in Germany. Soon, Douglas Chandler embraced Naziism...
Beacon in a Fog. While most other Protestant publications were displaying their intellectual poverty either by clinging stubbornly to dogma or retreating headlong before the advance of secularism, the Christian Century remained stimulating and profound; it eventually became a beacon of level-headedness in a fog of misty thinking...