Word: misting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this height, I leaned over and looked at a sky I had never seen, and may never see again. Cobalt blue at the edge of my sight, deepening and darkening as my eyes slid upward. No clouds here, no mist or haze. Cruising at Mach 2, ten miles above the earth, the plane probably has less vibration than a normal jet and the same interior noise level. The Concorde is narrow and somewhat claustrophobic, which may make it uncomfortable for some. But for me that feeling paled before the mind-boggling way in which it shrank the world...
...tides were running smoothly and the sun, shining through clouds, spread a soft golden mist across the Thames one morning last week. Phalanxes of gray commuters plodded across Tower Bridge toward offices in the City, all but ignoring the busy river. For those who did glance aside, there was a surprise: an impeccably uniformed Royal Navy officer was walking on the Thames...
Like stark sentinels, they loom high above the ocean waters, seeming in storm and mist to have been there nearly as long as the sea. They are the thousands of offshore oil platforms that dot the continental shelf of North America. They are the hostile homes of the offshore oil workers, a very tough and particular breed of men. Houston Bureau Chief Leo Janos went to live among them for a time on a platform off the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. His report...
...offers the only plausible motivation for staging, in huge panorama, each of the three major battles of the first Civil War. With the nitty-gritty gore and pageant out of the way, the American viewer could hardly be expected to resist a few heart-pangs when Harris walks through mist to touch the corpse of his son, slung over a horse, a battle casualty. This, the signal for intermission, brought instead groans of irritation from the Pi Alley audience. If cliches be wanted, cliche vendors like Ken Hughes must take a back seat to Erich Segal...
...cover up for her father. Undone by all this, the sheriff wanders vacantly around town. His passion for Alma makes him an accomplice when her father shoots a deputy sheriff. It leaves Tawes wounded and ruined as the McCain pickup truck, with Alma aboard, rumbles off into the mountain mist...