Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fresh from Princeton University, got off to a bad start when he began teaching French at the Loomis School in Windsor, Conn. At his very first class, he caught his feet in a wastebasket and fell flat on his face. Later, the boys, with typical irreverence, began calling him "Fog." But as things turned out, Francis Grubbs soon gave the lie to his nickname. Last week, after 22 years on the faculty, he became the school's headmaster...
Fifteen minutes later, when Fenton swung into his final approach, visibility had dropped to one-sixteenth of a mile, a blanket of fog and smoke still hugged the ground. Fenton chose to go around. What was the weather at nearby Seattle-Tacoma Airport? Visibility ten miles, ceiling unlimited. That was the last the tower heard from Fenton. The big plane roared over the field, slashed into a stand of fir trees, and fell, flaming, in an open lot outside the city...
Lawford has the proper light touch as the light-fingered leading man, and there is some spooky London fog to go with the murky dramatic doings. In spite of a moralistic ending that seems to have been tacked on, this made-in-Britain movie is a modestly diverting thriller that is as pleasantly well-mannered as its hero...
...issue of McCarthyism hangs over Wisconsin politics like a pea soup fog. From Milwaukee to the Canadian border, it dwarfs the normal Senatorial issues in the press and public discussions. Because of it, Joseph R. McCarthy is favored to win reelection even though he has made not one campaign speech and has a voting record that defies the will of his constituents...
Through all the fog and emotion plods Democratic nominee Thomas Fairchild, trying to conduct a normal Senatorial campaign. Although he bears a proud family name in the state, and is his party's best vote-getter, Fairchild knows he probably cannot win the election on the McCarthyism issue. In a state with a large Catholic population and a strong residue of isolationist sentiment from La Follette's day, McCarthy has somehow convinced the voters he has bagged Communists with his blunderbuss attacks...