Word: fogged
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...Fog billowed in from the sea. It blurred the outlines of the ancient town and muffiled the hammers in the shipyard where hundreds of workmen tortured English oak into ships and more ships for King William, scotching the Sun King, so they thought, with every hammer-blow...
Thus for the first time since he left the White House did Herbert Hoover become politically vocal on a specific national question. Heretofore he had written magazine articles and delivered speeches but his ideas were always muffled in a fog of meaningless political platitudes. Now as he was traveling home to California from his first New York Life Insurance directors' meeting, the Supreme Court rendered its decision on the gold cases (TIME, Feb. 25). For two days newshawks had trailed him, begging in vain for some comment. Sternly he put them aside with: "I am no longer in public...
Blown far off his course by crosswinds, forced to fly blind the whole way through fog and snow, Pilot Doolittle averaged 217 m.p.h., reached New York from Los Angeles (2,600 mi.) in 11 hr. 59 min., just in time to beat the transport record by four minutes. Said modest Flyer Doolittle: "I guess it was just a case of poor piloting. . . . The old man is slipping...
Consensus of shipping men was that the fog had cost them $1,000,000. James Henry Kimball, Manhattan's longtime weatherman, was inclined to double that figure. American, Eastern and United Air Lines and TWA estimated fog losses totaling $110,000. Manhattan's Empire State Building put its loss of sightseeing revenue...
...Fog is produced when warm, wet air encounters cold water, cold ground or cold air which condenses the moisture into droplets ranging from .00004 to .0008 of an inch in diameter. Thus last week's great pall was accompanied by unseasonal warmth. It was really a double blanket : an ocean fog caused by high pressure over the Atlantic and a land fog caused by low pressure over the Ohio and Mississippi valleys...