Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team that practices on a day like yesterday, with fog and cold and all, certainly deserves to win. BLC most certainly didn't practice...
...Queen Elizabeth docked at Southampton last week, 50 suntanned Californians tripped from ship to shore, bound for the London boat train and a fortnight's tour of the British Isles. A wan sun, hidden for days by fog, peeked out at them, just in time to make good the British Travel Association's current slogan: "Spring comes early to Britain...
...Britain's important secret weapons during World War II was "Fido" (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation), a system that cleared fogbound airports. In zero-zero weather, it brought thousands of Allied planes in safely. Fido's burners, alongside runways, threw out flaming gasoline that ate holes in the fog...
...summed up all the doubts, fears and confusions which hang like a heavy fog over Germany. The nation which produced Goethe and Goebbels, great cultural triumphs and human incinerators, has always produced eerie contrasts. Today, these contrasts seem to have taken physical shape. The face of Germany is hideously scarred-and yet, almost every where, one sees another face which is sleek and smooth...
...Marriage Brokers. Through the political fog that hangs over Germany the dim outlines of a political ghost can be seen-the ghost of a dark, homely man named Karl Radek. It was Radek, Soviet Russian agent in Germany after World War I, who pointed out that nationalism could become the vehicle of Communism in a synthesis which he called "national Bolshevism." It was Radek who explained to the Comintern executive committee that the nationalism of the German "masses" did not necessarily prevent them from turning to Communism. A great many forces in West Germany are conspiring to bring the ghost...