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Word: fogs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like more than half the traffic lights in Bucharest, this one on the busy corner of Boulevard Nicolae Balcescu is dead. In the freezing fog, sputtering Rumanian-made Dacia sedans are lurching every which way, horns honking. On the sidewalk, pedestrians slog through ankle-deep mud and slush past an armored personnel carrier, guarded by shivering young soldiers fingering the triggers of their Kalishnikov rifles. At a kiosk nearby, 50 customers jostle for the meager pile of Romania Libera newspapers. Two doors away, a line of more than 100 shoppers shuffles toward a butcher's counter offering only hamburger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumania Hooray! Traffic Jams at Last | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

COVE NECK N.Y.--A Colombian Boeing 707 with more than 140 people aboard crashed in fog and rain last night while on approach to Kennedy International Airport, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens, authorities said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Airplane Crashes Near Kennedy Airport | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

Patience at this point is advisable, because it will be rewarded. The year is 1984, although flashbacks soon come thick and fast. The setting is Vineland County, a fictional, fog-shrouded expanse of Northern California where, as one character remarks, "half the interior hasn't even been surveyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spores of Paranoia | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

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