Word: haze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From above, it looked like a dirty blanket enfolding the whole northeast. Pilots dipping from crystalline skies prepared abruptly to make instrument landings. In midmorning, motorists inched through the Stygian haze with smarting eyes and headlights ablaze. Skyscrapers were amputated at the midriff. Pedestrians in city streets gasped at the miasmal murk even as newspaper headlines screamed that their next breath might be a dose of poison...
Elsewhere, observers were not so lucky. A blanket of haze and clouds covered much of the East Coast and completely obscured the view of crowds gathered for the occasion in Manhattan's Central Park. Astronomers on a plane circling above the weather off Nantucket Island reported only about 20 meteor sightings in an hour. They missed the celestial show of a lifetime. Another spectacular Leonid shower is not expected again until...
...Campari. A growing number of businessmen are fighting the post-luncheon haze by switching to such lighter-spirited European drinks as Lillet Orange (Lillet vermouth, soda, a slice of orange), the Americano (Campari, Cinzano dry vermouth, soda) or just plain Campari and soda. Sangria, a Spanish punch combining red or white wine with fruit syrup and seltzer, has made a host of converts at Manhattan's new Fountain Cafe in Central Park. And, though it really caught on in Paris only this summer, a surprising number of U.S. bartenders have already learned to whip up "un Kir": a mixture...
Breath of Fresh Haze...
...professional forester, I live and work among millions of trees. These, according to Professor Went [Sept. 9], produce an "incredibly toxic" blue haze. I have lived in Pittsburgh before smoke control. I have known gasoline smog in Southern California, and pulp mill smog in the north. I have endured wood "smog" in mill towns and near forest fires. Somehow, in spite of the "blue haze," the mountain air seems pure, refreshing and invigorating. The action of trees producing oxygen from carbon dioxide and water should outweigh any "arboreal pollution." All pollution should...