Word: misting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merit a spare upper case letter, much less an inch of newspaper copy. The only good thing about the game, if you ask me, was my seat in the coveted pressbox. The shelter, located on the rim of the Bowl, was especially rewarding once the distant mist closed in and turned to drizzle towards the end of the third quarter...
...blown up to a huge scale. They look at once natural and out of this world - because they have organic structure." He pauses, then adds, "I've got pictures of Arizona. One could make hell out of almost any corner of the Grand Canyon with a little mist or smoke...
...Inaugural stands and putting that used lumber "on which the President has trod" up for sale at the usual exorbitant prices. But despite all that sense of new beginning, there is something else that one feels in this city. It is a little like some of the ground mist that drifts up from Foggy Bottom on these rainy mornings. It seeps into your very bones, and you are not quite sure how to define it, but you are sure it is there...
...childhood, when the white man cajoled his tribe off of their land, drove his father to drunken and death, and the half-breed boy towards stimulated deafness and dumbness, because "so one ever listened." Then came the war experience which left the Chief completely catatonic, wrapped in a mist of alternation, blown in periodically by the Combine's "log machines." World War II ranks high on the list of society's crimes against her individual members; it set Frank Scanion (Jon Richards) to building bombs with which to blow up his world, and gave Anthony Martial (William Preston) imaginary campanions...
...catch the vampires for their fatal treatment, the bat killers suspend, above the fence of a cattle corral, a Japanese nylon mist net, as fine as a lady's "invisible" hair net. The net is invisible in the dark when the bats sortie and, more important, its fine threads give back no detectable echo for the vampire's sonar system. When a bat is netted, a technician wearing tough leather gloves carefully removes it from the net and rubs its back with half a teaspoonful of petroleum jelly laced with 50 milligrams of diphenadione...