Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start, opportunist Jango Goulart showed that he understood the realities-and the possibilities-of his situation. No one knew better than he that if he made an overt grab for full power, a civil war would result in which he could only lose. In all the fog surrounding Jánio Quadros' resignation, the one certainty emerging is that Quadros never intended his Vice President Goulart to rule (presumably he thought the prospect so alarming that he would be called back). Before he resigned, Quadros summoned his three armed forces ministers and brusquely told them: "With this...
...been in the air for upward of 18 hours in an unavailing effort to keep Castro's planes off the troops and the remaining ship. That night a small force was scratched together. It was over Cuba at dawn, only to find the fields hidden by low, impenetrable fog...
...divided into 54 local school boards, which supposedly handle local needs, but everything is still red-taped by Livingston Street. Sometimes it takes a year to get a film from the central library; highly trained teachers languish on cafeteria patrol; requests to fix sagging roofs vanish in a Byzantine fog. For years, the bureaucracy left unspent most of the millions allocated for repairs to the schools (267 of them are 50 years old or more); the backlog of needed repairs is about $75 million. Bureaucracy stifles new teaching methods, which flourish in suburban public schools. Each year, the system drives...
...neared Sola, the weather worsened. Fog shrouded the fjords and the airfield; a 70-m.p.h. wind and rain buffeted the plane, lashed the ocean below into scudding foam. The pilot. Captain Philip Watts, radioed Sola, reported. "I can't see a thing." and said that he would make an instrument letdown. He made one futile pass, headed back out to sea to start another approach. "Cleared to descend to 1,400 feet." advised the Sola tower. There was no reply. Next morning, after an all-night sea and air search, the fire-gutted wreckage of "Papa Mike" was found...
WAIF & SAFE. H. L. Mencken called attention to the native U.S. talent for "reducing complex concepts to starkest abbreviations." From O.K. to K.O., Americans have long coined initial-born words. But what began as playful sport has turned into contagion and verbal smog (smoke and fog). Just to describe the new rash of alphabetease, linguists were forced to invent a new word: acronym (from the Greek akros for tip, onyma for name), which first appeared in dictionaries in 1947. Most insidious breeders are public relations experts, adept at spawning the punch word that sums up an organization, then...