Word: blanketly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scores of other ships converged on the disaster area. King Constantine flew his DC-3 to the scene and circled overhead, sometimes relaying rescue instructions to the searchers. On the dock at Piraeus, thousands of friends and relatives waited for the ships carrying the survivors and the blanket-shrouded bodies. By week's end 47 had been rescued, but the death toll was put at 234, making it one of the worst sea tragedies in Greek history. The government ordered a three-day period of national mourning...
...administration's short-sighted use of outside police is not of itself an argument for a blanket rule against such use. A situation could arise when even an enlarged campus police force would be inadequate. the best solution, then would be a clear statement by Chancellor Heyns that more restraint will be exercised in the future, that state and city police will no longer be brought in unless serious danger is posed to life, limb or property...
...Chancellor's intransigence is indefensible, particularly given the strikers' concession. Maybe Heyns is right in thinking he can win a total victory -- for the present -- but the political merits of standing fast cannot justify his blanket unwillingness, whatever the excuse, to consider the position of his opponents...
From above, it looked like a dirty blanket enfolding the whole northeast. Pilots dipping from crystalline skies prepared abruptly to make instrument landings. In midmorning, motorists inched through the Stygian haze with smarting eyes and headlights ablaze. Skyscrapers were amputated at the midriff. Pedestrians in city streets gasped at the miasmal murk even as newspaper headlines screamed that their next breath might be a dose of poison...
Elsewhere, observers were not so lucky. A blanket of haze and clouds covered much of the East Coast and completely obscured the view of crowds gathered for the occasion in Manhattan's Central Park. Astronomers on a plane circling above the weather off Nantucket Island reported only about 20 meteor sightings in an hour. They missed the celestial show of a lifetime. Another spectacular Leonid shower is not expected again until...