Word: fogbound
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...strong--whose attention was only intermittently focused on the diamond. A full corps of bagpipers, a combo of '33 dixielanders, and an unidentified group of reuners fitted out in sack dresses and burlap bags shared the spotlight with the players in the afternoon's gay proceedings at fogbound Soldiers Field...
Last week. in the austere severity of a fogbound London, Her Majesty's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council listened solemnly to the case of a murder by a lion-woman in the heart of Africa. Muhandi's appeal was denied; he would be hanged for murder, along with the two women, in accordance with the sentence of the Tanganyika court...
...Start. In London, the New Statesman & Nation printed an ad: "Feeling fogbound? Stand at your window with a glass of Duff Gordon's El Cid Sherry. Watch the mist turn rosy...
...second batch of stories which carry the baptism-by-life theme into young manhood are told by a nameless narrator who is serving as a seaman aboard tramp freighters. These show traces of the fogbound, soul-bedeviled yarns that Eugene O'Neill spun in his early one-acters. But what Iowa-born Author Kentfield brings to his best stories, beyond the knack for telling them well, is a front-porch vision of small-town life, talk, fears and dreams as authentic as the creak of the rocker that serves as the observation post...
...have joined the fad for question mark journalism, and in recent months have popped brain-rattling questions ranging from WAR GETTING CLOSER? (Answer: Few governments "now rule it out") to HOW WILL THE BIRD FLY?, a report on the stock market that concluded sagely: "There was solid ground for fogbound uncertainty." In McGraw-Hill's Business Week, an inquiring headline writer last week achieved a fogbound classic. Asked the head: INFLATION OR DEFLATION? Answered the boldface subhead: "Washington policymakers see the signs pointing both ways. But most economists agree that neither one is inevitable...