Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Darkness & Fog. After their capture, they had lived in a cheerless, timeless, maddening limbo. They were occasionally moved from prison to prison. Nielsen was court-martialed, condemned to death, reprieved. That, at least, was exciting. Otherwise, there had been nothing to do. nothing to read, no mail, no Red Cross packages. Said Nielsen: "Nothing is the hardest thing in the world...
...Better to have left the job to his great-grandson. By that time this great man will be rated as the one President in all time who made the world America-conscious; the one man who, had his health permitted, would today be leading the world out of the fog of disunity and uncertainty...
Like light, the ultrashort radio waves used in radar can be focused in a beam, are reflected by solid or liquid surfaces, travel with the same speed as light (186,000 miles a second). But for "seeing" distant objects, radio waves have a great advantage over light: they penetrate fog, clouds and smoke, reach out to far greater distances than the naked eye. And unlike light, radio impulses can easily be controlled to give an exact, automatic measurement of the distance to the detected object...
...75th floor of the Empire State Building a man heard the throbbing motors, turned quickly to the window, as he had many times before when planes passed. Coming straight at him out of the fog was a twin-engined bomber. It was banking slightly to the left...
...noon fog that hung over Huron's southern tip promised trouble. But for the first few hours there was only an innocent breeze to nudge the racers along the 243-mile course from Port Huron to Mackinac Island. Shortly after midnight, the storm swooped down from the northeast. Freakish gusts hit the fleet headon, built mountains of water that swirled 20 feet high...