Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artificial Fog? Then a fog came up. First the charges against the detectives were dismissed on a legal technicality. Then police reported finding two convicts who swore that Brinkley had boasted he had killed Melendes in a fight in the cell. For a while Brinkley was hounded by police and FBI, charged with draft dodging, indicted for sexual perversion, perjury and, finally, for second-degree murder. Next came eminent physicians, who examined bits of skin tissue under a microscope, cast doubt that violence alone had caused Melendes' death. The Civil Liberties Committee, taking up Brinkley's case, could...
...deny that these weeks have already been instructive--we have learned to ride bicycles with savoir faire through the teeming traffic of Harvard Square, how to fill out pay receipts, we hope, how our pay accounts are figured out-well, almost. When the fog lifts, if ever, we will be an asset, not only to the WAVES, but to the Supply Corps. When and if, Congress passes the bill, we will be truly "Ready for Sea" after we have been there for some time...
...Fog! Fog! Fog! A year later he was wearing a barrister's white peruke in London. At 55 he had begun a new career. Judges winced at first at his "unpleasant American twang." Ten years later he was acclaimed as "the most famous advocate at the English...
...Sale of Personal Property, with Reference to the American Decisions, to the French Code and Civil Law, better known as Benjamin on Sales. He ran his income up to $150,000 a year. For the U.S. he felt no homesickness, though in Britain he sometimes felt discomfort. "Fog, fog, fog!" he wrote. "I am most impatient to [go] somewhere where I can breathe...
...Radar sends out extremely short waves, invisible waves which bounce back to a receiver whenever they strike a ship or plane. Their range is about 130 miles, and they cannot be stopped by haze, fog or clouds. The returning signals can be translated into range and direction data...