Word: misting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maryland suburbs. Air crisp, sliver of a moon still high. Roar of the Potomac River's great falls from over the hill. George Washington used to tarry there. Headed down the valley to breakfast with Jimmy Carter, 189 years after George, but land still beautiful in first light Mist rising over water. Sun burnishing the East. Past Teddy Roosevelt's hiking island, Lyndon Johnson's memorial pine thicket, John Kennedy's flame. Glorious city ahead in sparkling dawn. Everything looks, feels better with President acting like...
...museum officials said yesterday plans for $12.7 million worth of renovation and expansion of the museum are also in a fog. No one is saying exactly what will remain when the mist clears, but changes have been made in the design for the new facilities...
...intrepid, if little known, Harvard fishing team set sail off the coast of Nova Scotia in the early morning mist of August 28, searching for the denizens of the North Atlantic waters...
...foggy mist wafted above the rim of a punch bowl at a wild Eliot House party Saturday night, a member of the men's soccer team accosted...
...effects of the dioxin. Crop-dusters try to confine spraying to forested areas with sparse populations, but the herbicide wafts toward more populated areas. Studies conducted by the Forestry Service document the phenomenon of "spray drift": the herbicide spreads to outlying areas coating them in a fine mist of chemicals. The Service found that dioxin floats into streams, where it harms fish. The same study documented a loss of vegetation adversely affecting the fishfood supply...