Word: misted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beautiful morning, with wisps of mist clinging to the jungle-covered hills. But the grimy, green-clad French Foreign Legion marched down Route Coloniale No. 2 beside their guns and tanks with curses on their lips. It was the luck of war: they had made a lightning strike into the heart of enemy country, but just as they had been about to descend on the Communist stronghold of Yenbay, the whole operation had been called off. Operation Lorraine it had been named-parachute troops leapfrogging an armored spearhead of 15,000 infantrymen, as pretty a piece of planning...
Nghialo was defended by a force of about 600 French and Vietnamese troops. Giap's first two assaults were beaten off with the help of B-26s and napalm bombs. After the third attack, in darkness and mist, a last message reached the military teleprinter in Hanoi: "Thank you for very close air support. Goodbye." Next day the French authorities announced that Nghialo had fallen...
...Some 175,000 craning fans, who brought tents and bedrolls for their 24-hour vigil, were on hand for the big show. For hour after hour, roaring wide-open on the straightaways, the cars spun around the 8.6-mile oval course, stopping occasionally for fuel or tire changes. Nighttime mist hampered visibility, but the asphalt road, lightly sanded to prevent slipping in wet weather, never became treacherous...
...Sarah Lawrence system can not be property termed one of free electives. It is up to the dot to see that his student takes a balanced program the different is that tutor and tutee pick the course together. Because only three subjects are taken the college rules that they mist lie in different fields. But if insistent, a girl can persuade her dot that two courses in mathematics are the only think that can make her truly happy. There has been some objection to the limits this rule places on the senior year, moreover, and a fairly large groups...
...last, milling and chatting discreetly as the coffin was loaded on to the funeral train amid the skirling of pipes. As the train pulled out, a blind in one coach was raised and Britain's new Queen peered out. Her breath fogged the window and she brushed the mist away with an impatient gloved hand...