Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event: Britons had not seen bananas in five years. When the good ship Tilapa tied up at Bristol last week, the Lord Mayor himself, driving through heavy fog, went down to welcome her. So did thousands of curious kids...
...swirling fog held London in a clammy clasp last week, muffling its powerful pulsebeat to a mere mark-time. The air tasted vaguely sulphurous and had the faintest odor of wet ashes...
Anywhere else, the fog that seeped into noses, ears and throats would have frayed thousands of tempers, but Londoners had long since come to regard a Big Fog as a kind of picnic. Under the cloak of pea-soup anonymity, whistling as they felt their way, strangers walked and talked with strangers in a manner unthinkable in bright daylight...
Newspapers called it the worst fog in 20 years. Officially, it was no record. The women clerks in the Air Ministry who test fogs by searching from the roof for 14 well-known landmarks (like Nelson's Column), reported that they could just discern "Object X," a building 30 yards away. Weather bugs, who call fogs by colors, dubbed this a "yellow"-worse than a "white" but not as bad as a "black...
...sooty fog lay heavy over Pittsburgh. Smoke seeped into the steel and concrete canyons of the Golden Triangle, bringing the lights on early in the long rows of office windows. Occasionally a puff of snow swirled up from the grimy sidewalk...