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- United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River
How To Use Foggy Bottom In A Sentence
- Our State Department is called Foggy Bottom for a reason - we send our worst there. Do Us A Favor, Pakistanis!
- All the streets in Foggy Bottom were jammed, and Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street were no better, especially because many people were heading for the Key Bridge to go to Virginia. David de Sola: Remembering 9/11 a Decade Later
- So the place to be Tuesday night for anyone interested in new music or the cello - or just innovative thinking in general - was St. Mary's Church in Foggy Bottom, where Uitti showed why she might be the most interesting cellist on the planet. Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti gives virtuoso performance in D.C.
- MORTON: In 2003 he suggested a small nuclear blast to shake up the State Department, whose building is in a Washington neighborhood called Foggy Bottom - quote -- "Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up like Newt Gingrich wants to do" -- unquote. CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2005
- A nickname for the United States Department of State, whose offices were built in a formerly swampy area of Washington, D.C., known as Foggy Bottom because of vapors rising from the swamp. Foggy Bottom
- Justice Department officials said Arbabsiar approached an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in Mexico and inquired about his knowledge of explosives and the possibility of targeting the Saudi embassy in D.C., located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood, near the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and across the street from the Watergate office and residential complex. Terror Plot Disrupted
- Foreign Relations: An internationalist only when it comes to attacking the vestiges of communism, Jesse Helms harries Foggy Bottom over foreign aid and trains a suspicious eye on the United Nations. Rolling Back The Right
