Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trip 21-New York to Brownsville-slim, 30-year-old Pilot Jim Perry knew that below him in the night was Stone Mountain. Not far from the radio fan marker that set the bulb alight, the unfinished stone faces of Gutzon Borglum's Confederate Memorial were sweaty with fog and rain. Atlanta's Candler Field was only twelve miles away...
...classiest outfit in the U. S. Navy. Rookie Bob, the boy-wonder of Pensacola, is received with all due suspect by the veteran laddies. Things go steadily wrong for two reels, and then Bobby runs true to form by saving the commander, proving the new landing-in-fog invention, and clearing his name of an ugly connection with the commander's wife--all in one breath-taking flight. The only sour note is that they wash out first-line fighting planes faster than we're building them. But Ruth Hussey has played with the one and only Taylor and will...
...mouth of Chesapeake Bay reported tersely: ''British warship, King George V class, off Norfolk waters."* Through a morning mist the battleship swung northwest, past the mouth of the Potomac, the inlets of Maryland's Eastern Shore, to drop anchor, invisible in the rain and fog, five miles from the Naval Academy at Annapolis. If Lord and Lady Halifax were waiting for a first glimpse of the U. S. they saw a desolate one-a waste of grey water, a cold, grey...
Convoy (British production; R. K. O. release). The fog is everywhere. The hull of a ship slides out of it: before the stern is visible, the fog hides the hull. A whistle tears the softness with a shriek: the grey blanket settles down more softly than before. Scene: the North Sea, whose oily green waters, even in summer, look cold. Time: World War II. Action: the hushed, relentless pursuit and escape of Nazi and British ships, alternately each other's victims...
...given the picture a realism that makes even The Long Voyage Home look like a studio piece. This realism of the sea is shot through with the realism of sea war. Terror is in the form of ships, the shapes of guns and conning towers. It is in the fog which hides the pursued, but also hides the pursuer. It is under the dark, heaving water; and even in the air, electric with the radio waves that may mean safety, may mean destruction. And there are terrifying shots-the sinking of a submarine, shells bursting on deck armor that squirts...