Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professor of journalism finally wore down the Boston Herald. As a onetime reporter, editor and news analyst, Boston University's Dr. David Manning White is allergic to newspaper cliches and "fog words" (i.e., seldom-used words), has been needling Boston papers about their use of them. Last week the Herald waved the white flag, editorialized: "In view of the Professor's unfortunate exposé of Boston newspaper punditing, we have little alternative but to follow his advice...
Even a landlubber who only goes down to the sea in books knows that the first seamen to board a ship adrift and take her in tow can claim salvage. Last fortnight, in a Gulf of Mexico fog, the Esso oil tanker Greensboro collided with the Esso tanker Suez and caught fire, killing 38 of the Greensboro's 42-man crew. The captain and crew of a rival tanker Virginia, which was nearby, saw a chance to invoke the sea's ancient...
...humor that bursts out like a prisoner escaping from a dungeon; occasionally there is evidence of Spender's acute eyes & ears, e.g., his description of antiaircraft fire as "like immense sheets of lead falling slowly through the sky, rattling and uncreasing as they fell." Then the pea-soup fog of shame descends again, and Poet Spender plods sadly on, carrying his backbone like a broken reed...
...great week for Ramon Magsaysay (rhymes with fog-sigh-sigh), Defense Secretary of the Philippines...
...Communist, like a skunk, is often easier to identify than catch. No one knows this better than the Government's Loyalty Review Board, which has often tried to fire an employee for disloyalty, only to have the suspect throw up a fog of doubt and win reinstatement. Last week the Loyalty Board asked the President for permission to cut through the fog by tightening its rules to fit World War II standards. Instead of having to prove "reasonable grounds" of disloyalty, "it wanted to shift the emphasis and dismiss any employee when there was "reasonable doubt" that...