Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operator told him that the field was still open and cleared him for an instrument approach. Hodge, leading a flight of four F-84s of the Georgia National Guard's crack stunt-flying team on a night-training flight from Miami, said he was starting down through the fog and rain. A moment later, the tower overheard one of Hodge's wingmen say: "I don't like this at all." Another pilot in the formation answered: "How do you suppose I feel...
...Fog closed in during the second half, and the huddled crowd had difficulty following the white ball-but not the score. They sat silent-as if at a national funeral. The magical Magyars won, 6-3, and at the very end, the stands rose as one in thunderous, generous applause for the Hungarians. The British press made no alibis. The Times wrote: "The Hungarians shot with the accuracy of archers. It was Agincourt in reverse." The tabloid Daily Mirror and the good grey Times both had the same thought: "It was the twilight of the Gods." With wry humor...
...Aneurm Bevan-to help out their candidate, Mrs. Lena Jeger. Clement Attlee told the voters that Churchill "believes in giving opportunities of profitmaking to private individuals; the general good is only a byproduct." From the London Zoo to the British Museum. Socialist loudspeakers dinned one slogan through the fog: "You Can't Afford the Tories...
...Rises. The helicopter?by virtue of its ability to rise straight up, to hover motionless in midair, to fly sideways, backward and forward, to feel its way through fog or snow at five miles an hour if necessary, to stop quicker than an automobile, and to lower itself vertically into clearings hardly bigger than the circle described by its rotor blades?began proving itself a priceless beast of aerial burden in the early days of the Korean war. In the last 36 months it has altered the whole world's concepts of transport, and has made itself a unique, irreplaceable...
Last week Pianist Kapell. 31. took off in a British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines DC-6 for the long flight home. Eight thousand miles later, letting down for an instrument landing at San Francisco, the big ship clipped a fog-concealed tree, crashed headlong into the side of a mountain ravine. Among the 19 who died in the flames was William Kapell...