Word: haze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portland: Blacked out. Portlanders have worked into the routine smoothly except that they turn lights on dangerously early in the mornings....Night fogs, common at this season, are now welcomed as Portlanders watch for the grey haze rolling up the Columbia and Willamette Rivers at dusk. They like to compare Portland fogs to London fogs-previously treasonable...
...sultry Sunday morning in August 1928, a long-legged, eight-year-old youngster stood in his father's alfalfa patch near Santaquin, Utah. Suddenly an airplane cleared its way through the haze, circled the field a few times, landed a few feet from the boy. The pilot, for no apparent reason, called to the boy and asked him if he would like a lift. The boy said his father was down at the Mormon Church at the moment, and he wouldn't mind going if they were back before church was out. So they took off, flipped around...
...taking a squint through the eye piece, annoyed the youthful astronomer particularly. "Yes, that is very interesting," she remarked, and added, "particularly because of my knowledge of astrology." But she did not hazard any prophecy on the course of world events from her observation,--perhaps because of the obscuring haze...
...first day few of the newsmen found where fighting was going on. Only a few lucky ones ever located the scene of a main action-officers didn't know or wouldn't tell. The press had to work in the haze of rumor, uncertainty and misinformation which invariably surrounds an army on the scene of battle...
...thousand feet below the fat belly of the cargo plane, the Virginia countryside had a wicked look. Rocks, scrub trees, creeks, fences, power lines looked as if they lay in wait there, in the blue summer haze...