Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vadim Siniavsky did. Reviewing the Moscow Dynamo Club's soccer invasion of Britain (TIME, Nov. 26), he beefed in Pioneer, a youth journal, that Britons had given the Russian champs a cool reception, had offered them a moldy, cobwebby barracks, had insisted on playing a game despite heavy fog...
...words (some of them ambiguous), Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles this week told industry what the new wage-price policy really means. The clarification still left vast areas of fog. The policy does not mean, said Bowles, that the 18½?-an-hour steel increase is to be the pattern for U.S. industry. Nor does it mean that a wage boost, alone, is enough to get a corresponding boost in price ceilings. But the policy did mean, he said, that companies can now get prompt price relief if 1) they have been squeezed into the red by rising wages...
Many a citizen guessed that the UNO site argument had only begun. Protests had been eddying like fog over the 42 square miles which Gavrilovic originally recommended. And though the General Assembly had instructed him to draw up alternative plans for smaller sites, UNO still hoped to get lots of land. "What," asked Dr. Gavrilovic, "can you do with five or ten square miles...
...hill, gave up, exhausted. They carted down blankets, built a fire, heated rocks to keep the wounded man warm. Then, as the boy kept solitary watch, Mrs. Hutt stumbled back to the lighthouse, desperately signaled to the mainland by blacking out the light with a curtain. She sounded the fog alarm, built seven brush fires on the hill. No help came. At 10 o'clock next morning Hutt died...
...cold California fog hung over San Joaquin Valley. Inside Beardsley's dance hall, near Bakersfield, the air was steaming with the exertions of 1,358 oil workers and farmers as they jived, jumped, or just jogged to the music. The men were mostly tieless; the fruit-cannery girls they danced with were mostly in sweaters and slacks. On the platform, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys tapped their pointed, hand-stitched boots, and plunked and blew their way through Take Me Back to Tulsa. On benches lining the walls, babies in blankets slept through...