Word: misting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after day, he deals calmly and skillfully with Florida politics, which carries into the atomic age the miasmic mist and the alligator snap of the deepest Florida swamp. The job keeps him busy. The other day, his 13-year-old daughter Mary Call asked him, "What's a lieutenant governor?" (the office does not exist...
...political mist enshrouding U.S. farm policy, doughty Ezra Benson emerged last week with a plan for shrinking overproduction. His plan would keep flexible price supports but would go beyond them by paying farmers to switch from surplus-making crops to soil-building grass and trees. Apart from its agricultural soundness, which came first with stubborn Ezra Benson, the "soil-bank" proposal looked like a political convincer. It was not a new plan; the New Deal put a similar scheme into effect from 1936 to " 1943. But coming from Benson, it was evidence that the Secretary's inflexible opposition to inflexible...
...vanished behind cold grey mist as Ike followed Mamie up the Columbine's ramp. Halfway, he turned, doffed his hat and, in the raw wind, addressed well-wishers: "My friends, again it is time for Mrs. Eisenhower and me to say good bye to Denver after a summer's stay. This time we leave under somewhat unusual circumstances. As you know, I have spent some time in the hospital. Such a time is not wholly a loss...
...climax came one day when the canoes were plowing through rain, fog and high, rolling waves near the mouth of the Columbia. For an instant the mist parted, and the men sighted the Pacific ("O! the joy," Clark noted). On the Oregon shore, they built a salt cairn and wintered. Clark cut his name on a pine tree and added (in case they didn't make it back): "By Land from the U. States in 1804 & 1805." They celebrated Christmas and New Year's among coastal tribes with flattened heads, who made life miserable by pilfering their supplies...
They prove that as an artist, Callahan can be as articulate in deed as word. At first glance the paintings appear to be sweeping prospects across the Northwest's mist-shrouded glaciers, mountain ranges and stormy coasts. Only slowly do the wraithlike figures of Callahan's inner vision-luminous white men, women and ghostly, plunging broncos-disentangle themselves from the black, grey, ocher-beige and violet whorls of rock...