Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week to the Charleston (W. Va.) chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Major General William M. Creasy of the Army Chemical Corps described a partial measure of atomic defense. One way to reduce casualties from nuclear explosions, he said, is to cover each threatened city with a blanket of dense, black smoke...
...brick buildings from dawn until dusk. Pedicab coolies in conical straw hats and straw raincoats lounged by their carriages, inspecting their bare toes as they waited to take Formosan families on New Year's calls. A soft fog ringed the lush, green hills, throwing a grey blanket over the palms, the camphor trees and the sweet-potato patches...
Although the opening of this Spring Term lacks the authentic atmosphere of its namesake season, there is a certain amount of encouragement in the blanket of snow that has settled upon Cambridge. Tramping to Registration at Memorial Hall may be less romantic than skiing, but at least the march will end with multicolored forms and not the overly-familiar bluebooks. It is even rumored that the delay of the snowfall until after the last exam has a mystical significance. Vermont's official groundhog watcher, for example, reports that yesterday's belated winter assures a fair spring...
Then, as the route swerved through the traffic-clogged heart of the Ruhr, a blinding snowstorm covered the road with an eight-inch blanket of snow in a single hour. On the worst stretch, co-drivers had to run ahead to guide their partners through a maze of stalled and jackknifed trailer trucks...
...ground will make an area of 4,000 square miles, mostly downwind, so radioactive that all people in it will get a "serious to lethal dose" in the first day alone. If they cannot evacuate, they will get more. Dr. Lapp believes that the explosion of 50 superbombs could blanket the entire northeastern U.S. "in a serious to lethal radioactive...