Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first the hospital ship's fate was completely cloaked by fog and silence. Then, as the first rescue vessel crept through the murk off Seal Rocks, lookouts spotted what looked like scores of tennis balls floating on the offshore swell...
Disjointed Tale. The tennis balls were human heads. It was quickly evident that there were hundreds of them in patches hidden by fog. There were rafts and makeshift rafts on which humans, crying in thin voices, clustered like sodden bees. The rescue vessels began pulling them aboard, and moving blindly on with whistles braying in eerie chorus...
Crowning Irony. The crowning irony came this week when Nationalist Spokesman Shen Chang-huan felt constrained to dispel at least part of the heavy fog surrounding President Truman's statement on Formosa. Said Shen in a statement to the Chinese press: "I believe the U.S. has no territorial ambitions on Formosa." It was a statement that any local U.S. spokesman might have been expected to make, but of course none did. Any local U.S. diplomat who said anything reassuring to the Chinese government would have expected to lose...
...allegory, The White Tower makes a molehill out of the mountain, but at face value, it is a superior adventure film, full of awesome scenery and the photogenic excitement of mountain climbing. Against backdrops of fog, a blizzard and glaring snowscapes, Director Ted (The Window) Teztlaff skillfully conveys not only the hairbreadth perils and sheer exertion of the sport, but also a fair idea of its tricky techniques. A buxom, wind-blown Valli, with talent to match her good looks, helps to keep the Alpine vistas from stealing the picture...
SEAC was sponsored by the Office of the Comptroller of the Air Force and will devote much of its thinking time to dealing with the fog of figures stirred up by modern systems of military logistics. If, in World War III, advanced U.S. air bases get the proper fuel, spare parts, ammunition, etc., at the right time, the pilots can thank SEAC...