Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilot, Lieut. Commander Frank R. More of Sunbury, Pa., made up his mind. He lowered his floats, eased down through tatters of fog toward the rafts. It was certain disaster to land in the thundering sea, but the white faces of the men below had made him decide...
...1850s spiritualism swept the U.S. eastern seaboard like a fog. It seemed, said one flabbergasted convert, "as though the spirit world, having at last hit upon a means of communicating with ours, could not get enough of it." Mediums sprang to fame, set the ether vibrating with spirit music, spirit painting, voices, lights, icy currents of air, luminous faces, words written in fire. "A whole mine of mysticism hatching beneath the skepticism of the 19th Century," said the shrewd French Diarists Edmond and Jules Goncourt...
...some cases the ratios have little to do with relative combat efficiency. If the enemy puts up little air opposition but the U.S. air force is active on dangerous missions-such as supporting ground troops in the Mediterranean, bombing a nest of antiaircraft in Rabaul, or flying in fog in the Aleutians-the ratios are deceptively unfavorable...
From the Sea of Okhotsk fog and rain creep southward to shroud a long, splintery island hugging Russia's coast. The island is Sakhalin, stern, unfriendly, peopled with grandsons of the criminals Czarist police sent there to rot and die in chains...
Columnist Fisher is amused by the fact that in 1937 Pegler himself took one of the most eloquent swings at columnizing: "Of all the fantastic fog shapes that have risen off the swamp of confusion since the big war, the most futile . . . the most pretentious is the deep-thinking, hair-trigger columnist or commentator who knows all the answers offhand and can settle great affairs with absolute finality. . . ." Since writing this, says Fisher, there are "very few answers [Pegler] has not attempted to supply offhand. He is currently concerned with postwar planning (he's agin it) and with interpreting...