Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found that, for the first time in my 51 Novembers, I wasn't snapping back the way I should-that the ever lovin' elastic wasn't there any more . . . Three weeks after the patch-up job, I've still got a headful of fog and a skinful of ache...
...Mountain Mouse. By then the fog had lifted, leaving the air crystal clear. Villagers below could now see tiny lights still moving up and up along the mountain. Lacking radios and fortified with grog, the St. Gervais party was pushing on. They spent the night in a refuge hut. Next morning at 6 they started climbing again. One of the climbers froze his foot and went back under protest. "By noon," said Viallet later, "we had dug through snow up to our chests across the corridor of avalanches . . . We drank grog. That's very important on the mountain...
...depicted from Kalimpong has no, repeat no, relation to the facts." Caught at their crystal-gazing, U.P.'s Sharma and others hastily reported that the Lama's "attempted flight" had been "prevented." But the Times of India did the neatest job of explaining: "A thick, almost impenetrable fog of rumor and fiction hangs over events transpiring on the Roof of the World...
...morning of Shaw's death, newsmen, who had stood a two-day deathwatch in the rain and fog outside the gates of the plain house called Shaw's Corner, were cheered at 4:30 a.m. by a sudden lifting of the fog. A half-hour later the stars were burning brightly when Housekeeper Alice Laden appeared at the gates and told the reporters, "Mr. Shaw is dead." Next day the world's newspapers were crammed with the highlights of his long life, restatements of his sauciest witticisms and the tributes of the great to a figure...
Wrong Airport. But what about MacArthur and what about Formosa? The question flapped along like the albatross as the Independence stuck her blue nose into the thick haze over Washington the next morning, passed over the fog-shrouded National Airport and landed instead at Andrews Air Force Base, twelve miles away (thus forcing Bess Truman, Secretaries Acheson and Snyder and the rest of the welcoming delegation to streak across town behind sirens). No one who knew Douglas MacArthur suspected that Harry Truman had talked him out of his conviction that Chiang Kai-shek should be shored up and Formosa defended...