Word: smog
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...poisonous smog...
...greans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...
...smog of discreet silence settled last night upon the return of James Leigh, Jr. '51, his friend Ralph Foote, and their child "brides" from Philadelphia. The four runaways entered Boston over the weekend in the custody of Leigh's parents...
...Choking Sensation. The first to discover that the smog had assumed peculiar qualities was a man walking home late at night. He was seized with a paroxysm of choking. But he had little time to reflect on the fact that the fog had assumed an odd, penetrating odor. He sat down on the curb, toppled over and died...
Loyal citizens held fast-they figured that they could still cool off and clean up in the Pacific Ocean. But in the middle of the heat and smog wave, the state Board of Health found that the local coastal waters were polluted with sewage. Promptly, if reluctantly, the board quarantined twelve miles of Los Angeles' best beach...