Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many a listener likes or dislikes programs or passages for reasons all his own. In one program a man strongly approved a scene about President Roosevelt's fight against infantile paralysis because it described the fog at Campobello and he was interested in the weather. A woman liked a soap-opera villain because he always closed the door quietly...
...Enemy Is Attacking. It was 6 a.m. at Dutch Harbor when the first Japanese planes appeared, the first Japanese bombs dropped. For their first blow, the Japs had chosen a spot in the Aleutians, the fog-bound islands which curve between Alaska and Japan. At Dutch Harbor, before Dec. 7, the Navy was perfecting a submarine and flying-boat base. Last week the Army & Navy had some defensive forces at Dutch Harbor, but not their main strength...
...fog-wreathed Grimsby on the North Sea, where British fishermen now don the greasy dungarees of the Royal Navy to go fishing for mine and submarine, Writer A. J. Liebling of The New Yorker found British character wondrously salted away in the diary of a patrol-boat captain. The captain was dead: he had "copped it in a fight with some motor torpedo boats. A one-pound shell took half of his head off." But he had left his immortally mortal diary behind...
...There are occasional mornings when, with an early fog not yet dispersed, one finds oneself . . . stepping onto the parapet. . . . Literally, there is nothing to be seen but mist. . . . What apocalypse is about to be revealed? . . . Soon, somewhere off in the mist, a single lofty highlight of gold appears: the earliest beam is upon the tip of the Metropolitan Tower...
...R.A.F., making good Churchill's promise to make "rostockize" a more sinister verb than "coventrize,"* revisited ruined Rostock, then flew eight miles farther north to Warnemünde, aircraft-manufacturing center and U-boat training base. As the night flyers came in through fog, intense artillery fire greeted them-but no searchlights...