Word: mists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warmer weather eases the strain of navigating the mist-curtained Arctic sea lanes to Murmansk. But such meteorological relief works alike for friend & foe. Last week Luftwaffe planes spotted a huge Allied convoy specking the slate-grey sea between Iceland and Norway's North Cape. They engaged the convoy in a running, four-day battle, claimed to have inflicted grave losses: 14 ships sunk, 16 damaged. No confirmation came from any Allied source...
...There are occasional mornings when, with an early fog not yet dispersed, one finds oneself . . . stepping onto the parapet. . . . Literally, there is nothing to be seen but mist. . . . What apocalypse is about to be revealed? . . . Soon, somewhere off in the mist, a single lofty highlight of gold appears: the earliest beam is upon the tip of the Metropolitan Tower...
...Manhattan's Whitney Museum hung 24 crayon sketches by Ferriss of the finest buildings the U.S. has put up in the past decade. Looming out of the mist like Manhattan at dawn were mighty grain elevators, dizzy-deep dams, steel and glass factories streamlined toward infinity, an outdoor amphitheater scooped like some monumental sculpture...
...Moon Mist (Duke Ellington; Victor). Distinctive Ellington treatment of an indigo tune by the bandleader's son, Mercer Ellington, introduced by rhapsodic fiddling from Trumpeter Ray Nance...
...clammy Channel mist hung chilly over Boulogne as the British ships sneaked inshore. In the murk of the early morning, the Commandomen, their faces daubed with jet black war paint like fantastic military minstrels, splashed into the surf and slipped ashore...