Word: misting
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...bigger & bigger patches of green spread on the snow fields, it seemed that the Russian was left-jabbing desperately to keep the Nazi off balance, as if he were a groggy but still brutally strong fighter recovering from his winter knockdown and shaking the mist from his brain. Both sides admitted fierce enemy attacks-repulsed, of course-and neither side claimed the capture of any important town. In the south, the Germans sent up tank replacements painted green for spring...
Everything was right. The moon was bright, but ghostly and tricky with mist. Swarms of British attack planes thundered down on the night's target, peppered & salted it with bomb, cannon, machine gun. In the milky darkness half a mile away, big Whitley bombers dropped clusters of parachute troops, their faces and even their teeth blackened by burnt cork...
Without the aid of weird musical effects and somber, "arty" camera angles, "Ladies in Retirement" packs as much terror and suspense as a dozen of Hollywood's more pretentious spinetinglers. There are a couple of shots of mist-covered marshes to lend atmosphere at the beginning, and the musical background does furnish a few minor chords at the right moments; otherwise the story moves along--with its train of sinister over-tones--of its own weight. The effect lies in the story itself, and in some excellent direction, not in the well-aimed camera that has made so many films...
...product of chemical warfare between germs, the brew, called gramicidin, overcomes certain streptococci, staphylococci, pneumococci. In tests on animals and humans it is from 1,000 to 100,000 times as strong as sulfanilamide in healing local infections. One-millionth of a teaspoonful, as much as a drop of mist, is enough to protect a mouse from 10,000 fatal doses of pneumococci...
...blackest day in U.S. airline history came with a great mass of cold air from the Arctic. It thrust a freezing finger as far south as the Texas panhandle, rested its chilly knuckles on the Great Lakes, spumed in ice, rain and mist where its skin touched warmer...