Word: mist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fame gallery, where the elect are commemorated with an all-American mixture of hoke and majesty. Guys try explaining to their wives some athletic epiphany in the career of a stranger. One swing of a bat, one sliding catch, a third strike from a half-century past can mist an old man's eyes. And just as a player can win a game by coming home, so the old teach baseball memory to the young. Last week a boy stared at a three-panel portrait of Mays, Mantle and Snider; the caption read "Willie, Mickey & the Duke Triptych." Looking...
...loaded some exotic creatures onto his junk and headed back to China from the coast of East Africa. One, the long-necked K'i-lin, astounded Emperor Yu and his court. It was unlike anything they had ever seen, with its "luminous spots like a red cloud or purple mist." The K'i-lin was poked, prodded, observed from every angle, much commented upon but little understood...
...full flight from a squad of advancing North Vietnamese regulars, was made with a howitzer shell. Puller described the moment in Fortunate Son: "I thought initially that the loss of my glasses in the explosion accounted for my blurred vision, and I had no idea that the pink mist that engulfed me had been caused by the vaporization of most of my right and left legs...
Upon sitting down in the conference room at the Charles Hotel for a brief interview with The Crimson, Alek Keshishian '86 tossed a pack of Marlboro Lights on the table with his left hand and inhaled Primatine Mist with his right. He waggishly shook his longish gray-streaked hair, explaining, "This is for my asthma...
...refined itself into a certain atmospheric snideness -- has settled down to a vague male aversion, as if masculinity were a bad smell in the room. Man bashing is dispensed, so to speak, in aerosol spray (Man-Disss), which covers the male's nasty essence in a fine mist of shame...