Word: pea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many kinds of fog-dry, wet, sea, land, smog (smoky), black (sooty), ice, pea-soup (moderately smoky, yellowish, once thought peculiar to London)-most are not troublesome to flyers because they are shallow or ephemeral. But there is great danger in advection fogs, produced by the drifting of warm air over cold land or water or snow banks (common off Labrador): they are deep-sometimes thousands of feet-and treacherous...
When Education moved in, it found that the former occupants had left but two things in the house--a large banner, reading "W. Rodman Peabody", body. On this basis Philip J. Rulon, and a book by Francis Greenwood Pea-associate professor of Education, named his headquarters Peabody House...
...past six weeks Farmer Stiles has been rising an hour earlier than usual, just to poke around his parched 440 acres. Last week the pea vines were fading to white splotches on their poles. Tomatoes and beans were all that had been salvaged from the quarter-acre vegetable patch...
Because they have no weather reports, they resort to makeshifts, take chances. Old flying boats venture out and up through pea-soup overcasts, often to rescue flyers from a sea so cold that few men have survived after floating in it for more than 30 minutes. More men and planes have been lost to the weather than to the Japs...
...turns up with a better weather yarn, airmen of the Aleutians forces will stick to Hannibal, the hitchhiking sea gull. Hannibal, the story goes, turned up on the wing of a Navy Catalina patrol boat one day when it was feeling its way, barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into...