Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...married wealth (Armour) and adopted arch-conservative views. Jimmy Byrnes has found his departmental knowledge invaluable. (At a Potsdam session one day, Molotov and Eden suddenly began talking about Varkiza, the Greek village where the armistice in the civil war was signed. Lost in a fog, Jimmy Byrnes turned to Jimmy Dunn and blurted: "What the hell is Varkiza?" Jimmy Dunn was able to tell...
...pampas toward Cordoba one day last week, Argentina's Vice President and Strong Man Juan Domingo Perón looked out from his airplane seat at fleecy clouds and the three-plane fighter escort close at hand. Suddenly one of the fighters veered away from a fog bank, shot toward PerAlemánn's DC-2. The fighter whipped overhead, barely missed crashing squarely into the transport's fuselage. There was a sharp bump and it thundered into a spin. One of the transport's propellers had cut off its tail assembly...
...Manchuria and elsewhere Russian forces bagged more than a half million Japanese troops. Soviet troops completed their occupation of the fog-bound Kuril Islands. In Moscow Stalin said the Kurils and the southern half of Sakhalin island would again become Russian territory...
Flying Northwest's cold, snow and fog blanketed route to the Orient will be a new and daring experience for most civilian travelers, but old stuff to Northwest's frostbitten pilots. For Army's Air Transport Command Northwest's pilots have piled up more than 17 million miles of flying north of the U.S. border. Thanks to improved de-icing equipment, they have been able to fly 95% of all ATC's tough north Pacific schedules on time...
Questions & Answers. Anxious, hopelessly confused, Jane decided to take the night train to David's country home. The London station was packed with weary soldiers, sailors, workmen, mothers and children. A friendly corporal appeared out of the yellow fog, and helped Jane through the milling crowd...