Word: mists
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...gulped, audibly, regrettably, and made for fresh air. The mist was a sweet but persistent spit now, and we gathered up our pluck and struck off on Fountain Ave. As we passed Primrose Path, Ash Ave., Indian Ridge, and a few other bustling thoroughfares, we remembered the recent experience there of an anarchic friend, told us in the cheerful atmosphere of the Adams House Dining Hall...
...motorized lawn-mower, and said, 'Hey, Mac, put on your shirt,' so I said, 'Listen, buddy, I got more clothes on than most people around here,' at which point he spun around his machine in search of greener laws to mow." We stuck in our shirt-tale and the mist thickened...
Outside the Capitol at Atlanta on an eventful night in 1947, the January landscape lay wet with rain, and a low mist wreathed the statue of Freedom topping the limestone building. Inside, the Georgia legislature commenced the final act of a political drama opened 25 days earlier when gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge, after 20 years of politics and prejudice, died on the eve of his fourth gubernatorial term. Aware that Gene was seriously ill on election day, some supporters had cast write-in votes for his son, gone out to marshal dead voters whose names could shoot his total higher...
...over Farmer Joseph Philp's sprouts patch, 600 yards away. Suddenly he felt his wheels touch down-too soon. Ramming his throttles forward, he tried to climb skyward. At that moment the airport greeters had their first horror-stricken sight of the Vulcan, a monstrous shadow in the mists at the runway's threshold. It was in trouble. Pilot Howard passed the word, "Abandon ship!" He and Sir Harry, in their ejector seats, shot upward from the aircraft, and their parachutes blossomed in the mist. But for the other four members of the crew, whose only exit...
Pity, Not Mist...