Word: misting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gathering darkness hurtled a length of metal pipe. It struck a marshal on the side of the helmet, stunning him. That was enough. "Let 'em have it!" yelled Chief Marshal James McShane. "Gas!" Tear-gas guns went off with metallic whoomps, filling the air with blinding mist. The crowd screamed and retreated. But the battle had only begun...
...pets, wildlife and vegetation. A network of copper or plastic pipe is laid around the garden, patio or swimming pool, with nozzles set inconspicuously at intervals. The plumbing is connected to a tank of water-base Pyraid insecticide; when the owner flicks a switch, a pump jets the lethal mist over the area. A two-minute spray is effective for about half a day, gives off a pleasant lemon odor. The device is made by Feller Chemical Co. of Woodside, N.Y. De luxe unit, adequate for coverage of a 5,000-sq.-ft. area...
...when B. seizes power, such illusions are shattered. B.'s hatred turns out to be barren and implacable, his cruelty an end in itself. "Even hatred cannot exist without a drop of love," the hero muses, "or it is no longer hatred but a cold devastation, a heavy mist across the fields that blots out every path: unachieved creation." Now that the bond of enmity has snapped, he is at last willing to fight...
...Washington, D.C. Through the deserted lobby of the Shoreham Hotel moves an elderly man with a brown cane. He sets out at a brisk pace into the morning mist that still mantles Rock Creek Park. His shoes are scuffed, his trousers baggy, his shirt frayed. He is alone, and he is happy...
Earth was a cylindar, like Edison's first records incised and not the blue plate special of today, air was also mist and dew and fog, immersed chords decor not unlike wallpaper, elemental, held its sway...