Word: misted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radiological aftereffects were relatively slight; the dangerously radioactive materials they released were largely sucked up into the substratosphere. But says Dr. Warren: "That second one at Bikini really ties this business up in a knot. . . . Literally astronomical quantities of radioactive material had become intimately mixed with the sea water, mist and spray which accompanied the formation of the giant mushroom of water which rose from the lagoon. . . . [Such atomic mist] will deposit huge amounts of radium-equivalent -anywhere from a ton to 100 tons...
...Tansey got the latest weather report. A ground mist was hanging over Rineanna Field at Shannon. It had all but "socked in" the airdrome; the ceiling was at 500 feet, the minimum for night landings there. Perhaps the Star of Cairo might have to go to Prestwick, Scotland, or another alternate field. Anyhow, there was plenty of time to decide...
...this doleful headline, the Liverpool Daily Post last week welcomed back 50 English war brides, who had tried life in Canada and found it wanting. As the liner Cavina was warped into the Liverpool dock through dank, grey mist, the homesick homecomers clutched their children and wept...
Under the gauze of London's blue-grey November mist, the Portland stone buildings of Whitehall, the delicate tracery of trees in Parliament Square, the twin towers of Westminster Abbey all melted together to form a silver backdrop. Fresh sand strewn along the procession route made a golden carpet...
When Renoir wrote those words (in 1882) his deft blottings pleased his impressionist friends but not himself. Like Monet, Sisley and Pissarro, Renoir had learned to see nature as a dazzling cobweb of colored light, where the shapes of things melt and blend like mist. But at 40 the spare, scraggle-bearded painter grew suddenly sick of mistiness, went digging for solid forms. He became a student again, and spent the next two years in life classes, learning to draw...