Word: misted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particularly heavy; the hills stand close and no breath of breeze had reached its streets. The haze thickened as locomotives and the high stacks of U.S. Steel's huge Donora Zinc Works sent fumes into the still air. But nobody paid much attention to the smoke-laden mist. The zinc plant had been operating for more than 30 years and Donora has often...
Various drugs (mostly those which constrict the blood vessels) might help even serious cases. But when the victim tries to breathe the drugs into his lungs as fine mist through a "nebulizer," they do not penetrate deep enough. Struggle as he will, the stiffened sacs remain full of stale air and of carbon dioxide from the blood...
...Motley combined the nebulizer with a "cycling valve"-a sort of artificial breathing apparatus developed for the Air Force. With it he forces air, or oxygen, into the lungs of silicotics. The air passes through the nebulizer, picking up the drug mist. When the lungs are full, the valve goes into reverse and empties the stiffened lungs more thoroughly than the victim's breathing muscles...
...easter, Henry Taylor was worried. He called La Guardia Airport, got a discouraging weather report : the seas would get glassy calm near Bermuda. Taylor hitchhiked a ride on the New York Herald Tribune's plane that circled out over the Atlantic to cover the race. Through the mist and rain he spied three sails-but no sign of Baruna...
...Ginny had even been wormed into the New York Sun as a society columnist: "The William Benjamins 2nd (Odette de Brunière) hope for a telephone during the New Year." And last week her debut had the hairy Daily News mewing about "a pale blue moon" and "pink mist." For her coming-out party, there was a blaze of pink candles, a bed of pink azaleas, baby spots playing on the potted plants, a hamburger stand and an ice cream stand, champagne ("all French") in five-foot jeroboams, Moscow Mules* in copper souvenir cups. After breakfast (4 a.m.) Ginny...