Word: misting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gloucesters have been in such spots before; they have the exclusive privilege of wearing a Sphinx badge to commemorate their bold back-to-back fight against the French in Alexandria in 1801. In a dense mist, the French broke through and attacked the Gloucesters from the rear as well as the front. Undismayed, the Gloucesters' rear rank about-faced and fought...
...picked reinforcements soon to come, he boarded his Constellation for Indo-China. As he flew over India, the news from IndoChina was bad: the Reds had come close enough to cut the Haiphong water supply. De Lattre ordered his pilot to fly direct to Haiphong, but the same crachin mist which was giving cover to the Communists prevented the big Constellation from landing. De Lattre landed at Saigon, rode a light plane back to Haiphong, took charge of the battle...
...soon as the mist cleared, De Lattre sent in his Hellcats and B-26s with bombs and napalm. The Viet Minh soldiers fled, leaving behind 1,200 dead, 3,000 wounded and 400 prisoners. Four days later the French reopened Route Coloniale...
...always ready; their engines need no warming up. The crews are waiting, too, close to the waiting planes. It takes them only minutes to jump into their gear, clap on their helmets, cram themselves into the cockpits and lower the plastic canopies. The engines whine, shoot a fine mist of kerosene from their tail pipes, then a burst of flame that shrinks to a faint blue cone...
...triumphant old age, Turner took into his province such formless things as snow, wind, mist and sunlight, painted them with a radiance that has not yet been surpassed. As a young art critic, John Ruskin saw their greatness, but most of Turner's fellow academicians did not. Because Turner dared paint sunsets as they really look, and because toward the end he cared not a hoot for composition, he was accused of tastelessness. He still is, but good taste remains a refuge of minor artists, one Turner had no need...