Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What were Mr. Krock's apprehensions? "Because of the fog that masks our policy and has produced diplomatic inaction . . . Soviet Russia will dominate the postwar structure . . . that domination exists superficially already...
...order. . . . No previous problem has ever made such demands on the highest qualities of both mind and character. It is possible that the world may prove lacking in one or both. . . ." By 1937 his fears had grown more specific: "There may well. lie ahead of us somewhere, like a fog back on the horizon, a period of drabness, sameness, loss of personal liberty and low standard of living. . . ." And he voiced the menace as abiding as the danger of Indian attacks at night in the colonial days he had studied: "What can we say of the remainder of this century...
...World War II, blonde (formerly brunette) Frances Langford has not reached all of its multi-fronts yet. The physical demands of global entertainment should have strained the 5-ft. 3½ in., no-lb. Langford frame, but they apparently have not. When the Hope troupe's plane was fogged out over Alaska, Frances said to her boss: "If we land okay, there's something I want to tell you." They landed okay (thanks to a dozen searchlights which punctured the fog and a blackout regulation), and she confided: "I was hoping we'd have to jump...
...pills (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942),* and is indubitably the drug that causes periodic tantrums among college deans when cramming students take overdoses. Benzedrine, a chemical relative of adrenalin, also may bring eyes back to normal after the use of oculists' drops, relieves hangovers, clears the brain of mental fog...
...evacuation, "the guardian deities of Attu" also calmed the seas and temporarily hoisted the fog to provide a convenient 15 feet of perfect visibility...