Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies, from supposedly fog-bound British airfields, manage to keep an aerial counterattack hammering at Von Rundstedt's Ardennes offensive? This is a question which must have racked the German generals with agonizing curiosity. Last week the British unwrapped the answer...
...cross the Rhine through the artificial white fog, listening to the whine of woodsaws and the coughing of the red-eyed engineers who have been living in this chemical cloud for days as they throw bridge after bridge across the smooth, fast-flowing waters. On the other side, as the mist lifts, you pass through the familiar phenomena of big captured towns in Germany: mile after mile of smashed industrial sections, of ruined homes, of buildings broken, and broken over & over again into brick dust. Then suddenly you are past the last stretch of rusted junk that used...
...dozens of ships that crept through the fog into Manhattan's harbor last week was a French merchantman inbound from the Mediterranean. Stowed within her salt-stained hull were 6,000 cases of Hennessy brandy, 2,500 cases of Martell brandy, and four cases of Caron perfume. This was not a large shipment by prewar standards, but it was the first consignment of French luxury goods to arrive in the U.S. since...
...marines had lost sight of the target in the fog of battle, the San Francisco Chronicle had not. It roundly thumped Hearst for running down the marines in order to build up General MacArthur-who needed no build-up at anyone's expense. Observed the Chronicle: "Sinister fantasy ... to hint that the marines die fast and move slowly . . . because marine and naval leadership ... is incompetent...
Disproving the theory that whatever is learned in this school can never be forgotten, Dick Ayers' wonderful spiel on IBM procedures went over most of the fog-bound heads in the audience that night. But we did notice bright-eyed Professor Bliss taking a few quick notes on the back of an envelope; perhaps something that he had forgotten or perhaps just something else to smile at and to see how "surprisingly" well the boys next term...