Word: smog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malibu, built some 30 traffic-tangled miles from the heart of Los Angeles, at a point along Highway 101A where the brush-covered Santa Monica Mountains drop down to the Pacific. One reason for Malibu's attractiveness: when other parts of Los Angeles County are stifling with smog (partly abetted by the exhaust fumes from the county's 2,500,000 cars), Malibu, a jutting beach area, is swept clean by freakish, cold, dry desert winds...
...Russians were represented by 1984 men, whom history had given nothing but a theory of history. Jive and Marxism simply do not dig each other. It is Capote's achievement that the pseudo-sophistication of jive comes through as a kind of innocence, while the smug smog of Marxism is shown for what it is-a grey disease of the mind...
...Springfield response was good enough to get him really steamed up for California. In San Francisco he poured on the sarcasm ("You've got to respect [Eisenhower's] clear and forthright opposition to inflation, deflation, fission, fusion and confusion, doubt, doom and gloom, fog and smog"). And once again he asked: "Are we seriously asked to trust . . . the decision over the hydrogen bomb to ... Nixon?" And once more, the crowd roared: "No!" In Los Angeles that night, 25,000 aggressive, confident Democrats caught the new spirit as Adlai carried on at Gilmore Field. They roared when he accused...
That night at the smog-shrouded Hollywood Bowl, Tommy Kuchel was to introduce the President to a crowd of 22,000 whooping, happy Republicans. But Goodie said that, as governor, that was his privilege. So Kuchel introduced Knight; Goodie introduced the President. In the course of his speech, Ike said he hoped all Republican candidates for Congress would be elected, including Senator Kuchel...
...heat was carried in by a thick haze, described by meteorologists as somewhat similar to Los Angeles "smog...