Word: misting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was even a verse about him; it showed how the '20s felt about Earl Sande, even if it taught a lot of people to mispronounce the name (rhymes with grand). Wrote Columnist Damon Runyon with a Broadway mist...
...ground, a crew of technicians is just as busy. Before each landing, one man is at runway's edge, peering through the mist to count all he can see of a curving line of carefully placed black panels. Another sets up a stepladder at runway's end, climbs to the top (where he is almost as high as if he were in the cockpit of a landing plane) and counts the runway lights and markers that gleam through the weather. What each man sees is one more measure of visibility on the field. Automatic instruments keep a continuous...
...they can about the tense last moments of an instrument approach to a socked-in airfield. Today's blind-flying planes have intricate instruments to help them navigate (TIME, June 15). But only the most accurate observations can tell pilots when it is safe to grope through mist toward the ground. In their dangerous flights over Long Island, Rube Snodgrass and his crew, measuring those last few feet of weather, are setting new standards for tricky, foul-weather landings...
Curtain thy heavens, thou Jove, with clouds and mist...
...Ship. As the Sverdlov loomed through the early morning mist, a hum of excitement spread through the dockyard city of Portsmouth: she was the first Russian warship to visit Britain since the war. Old hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall to honor the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday. Royal Navy liaison officers also marked her power (twelve 6-in. guns in paired turrets fore & aft, twelve dual-purpose guns, ten torpedo tubes, double sets of minelaying cables) and her probable speed (35 knots). Said the Admiralty: "We find her very...