Word: fogs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ingenuity & Spirit. Even with reservations, there is always the threat of fog and canceled flights. One Cape Cod-bound CBS executive set off for Boston, landed instead in Burlington, Vt., because Boston was socked in. The airline provided a limousine for the 220-mile drive to Boston; fog still ruled out the flight to Provincetown, so he rented a car and drove another 115 miles, arrived at midday Saturday only to set off again Sunday for the return trip, just as the fog rolled back...
Noting that King Bhumibol of Thailand had visited Massachusetts' Martha's Vineyard as a child, Lyndon Johnson allowed to the monarch during his recent visit to the White House that "some members of my Cabinet-some members of my staff-have been known to disappear into the fogs of the Vineyard for long stretches of time. Some of them even claim that the fog obscures not only land and sea but also the sound of the White House telephone." Added L.B.J.: "Secretary Katzenbach, I am carefully observing your reaction...
Fogbrooms came upon the scene just as New Jersey officials were beginning to despair of ever finding a practical fog-dispersal system for their highways. Giant fans installed several years ago along the New Jersey Turnpike to blow fog away instead seemed to draw more into the area. Propane jets, used successfully to clear fog around Paris' Orly Airport, would be prohibitively costly to install along miles of highway. Like silver-iodide seeding-another technique used to clear fog from airports-the Orly system is effective only against fogs that occur at below-freezing temperatures; most New Jersey fogs...
...Modern Library prose. We owe her much thanks for her hardihood, but it is refreshing to find out every so often that Dostoevsky really didn't write that funny way. The Loeb Repertory Company has staged a collection of scenes from Crime and Punishment that pierces through the Garnettian fog to something close to the original electricity of Dostoevsky...
...Walker can move toward climax and depth in the confines of a single scene. But little holds the scenes together, and when in the third act the play enters its third hour at the same time as the pace of the scenes goes a little too slow, a new fog of fatigue creeps over Dostoevsky...