Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party Going is shy of plot, even for plot-shy Henry Green. Seven bright young crumbs from the British upper crust set out for a holiday in France; they never get there. A dense fog anchors them to a London terminal-and four hours of each other's clabbering company. The rich and amiable sponsor of the party, Max Adey, wangles hotel rooms to wait in, and they go for each other, hammers & tongues...
...recent morning, a naval officer in civilian dress stepped off a train at a fog-shrouded New England seaport and climbed into a waiting limousine. The car sped through the quiet streets and out into the misty countryside. A short while later, in a well-guarded brick building, the Navy man was speaking in harshly urgent tones to a handful of scientists and shipbuilders gathered around a conference table. The officer's name: Captain Hyman George Rickover. His job: to direct the building of the U.S. Navy's first atomic submarine...
Space Travelers. Even if the space travelers survive their first hazards, they will have plenty of other things to worry about. Fog would envelop the cabin after the slightest perspiration on the part of the passengers. Their hair would stand on end, their clothes would balloon away from their bodies, and anything not nailed down would float aimlessly about the ship's interior. The space ship and its passengers would be bombarded by dangerous solar X rays and cosmic rays, would run the risk of colliding with meteorites plunging across the interplanetary course...
...schools of fish, he could usually tell what kind they were (by the size of the school and the depth at which it swam). Even more important, in narrow, rock-lined Alaskan channels his underwater signals bounced back from shoals and shore line, allowed him to navigate in dense fog when even craft equipped with radar (which cannot operate under water) stayed at the dock...
...diplomacy's ancient devices, in spreading a self-protecting fog, is to make changes while solemnly asserting that no change has been made. This was obviously what was happening in Foggy Bottom: State's Asia policy had been going through a slow strengthening over the past several months. In all of Dean Acheson's denials last week, he did not once deny that Rusk and Dulles had correctly stated State policy. His principal objection seemed to be that they should not have made it so clear...