Word: pea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marine Captain George Roy Hill, on a routine training flight, was flying through a pea-soup fog toward Atlanta's Candler Airport. With the field socked in and his instruments out of order, he had to make his landing with the help of GCA (Ground Controlled Approach), the radar landing system. By voice radio, the operator on the field furnished Pilot Hill with simple verbal instructions, and Hill brought his plane in for a perfect landing-even though the field was so fogbound that a jeep sent out to lead him to a hangar was unable to find...
...vaults. It was six-thirty, and the five Brink's men were in a hurry to get home to supper. Suddenly one stopped short, threw up his hands; the other four, all armed, whirled around and did likewise. Standing around them were six medium-sized men, all wearing pea jackets, chauffeur's caps, rubbers on their shoes, and grotesque, old-manish, halloween masks over their heads. Each Brink's man found a 38 trained...
...tuatara is not outstandingly intelligent; its brain, only about the size of a green pea, is hardly a brain at all. When strolling leisurely, it drags its belly and tail slowly over the ground. When chasing a spider or a grasshopper, it rears up on all four legs, like an optional four-wheel drive, and makes better speed. Most of the time tuataras are silent, but during the mating season they speak to one another with froglike croaks. Their eggs, laid in petrel burrows (tuataras eat young petrels), take a year to hatch...
...issue of McCarthyism hangs over Wisconsin politics like a pea soup fog. From Milwaukee to the Canadian border, it dwarfs the normal Senatorial issues in the press and public discussions. Because of it, Joseph R. McCarthy is favored to win reelection even though he has made not one campaign speech and has a voting record that defies the will of his constituents...
Other candidates for state officer who received endorsement were Oan H. Fann '44, a former assistant Dean who is running for the state legislature: Foster Furcolo, Democratic candidate for state treasurer: Mario Umana of East Boston for State Senator and Representative James E o'Pea Jr. of Lowell for State Representative