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Word: cloud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is a father to do, muses Tenintius as he disconsolately fondles a slave girl, his heart heavy and his country destitute. Cloud-borne, the answer descends heavily from the grid. The goddess Diana (Anthony Fingleton) has landed in Beotia. As it turns out, the goddess of chastity, and the moon ("Would you like to see why?"), can't find any takers on Olympus. She's come to earth to correct all that. "People," she sings philosophically, "are better than nothing...

Author: By Timothy S. Mayer, | Title: A Hit and A Myth | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...thrusts this hero forward insistently. The camera is tight on Clint Eastwood as he chews his cigar, clips a sentence, tips his hat, swallows soup. The concentration creates a giant out of a so-so Rawhide type. At the final confrontation with his enemies, Eastwood appears out of a cloud of dynamite dust...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: A Fistful of Dollars | 3/7/1967 | See Source »

...INSTITUTE of Politics in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government is understaffed, overpublicized, and its most immediately visible aspect, the Honorary Associates program, has stirred up a cloud of controversy that has still not settled...

Author: By John A. Herfort, | Title: The Kennedy Institute | 2/25/1967 | See Source »

Misinformation & Fear. Strong emphasis would be placed on education to counter what Johnson called "a cloud of misinformation and unarticulated fear" about the effects of open-housing legislation. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development would be directed to exhaust every means of conciliation before taking a case to court. Other civil rights proposals, which by themselves would meet with general approval in Congress, would guarantee fair selection of Southern juries, give greater federal protection to civil rights workers, and broaden the authority of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Civil Rights & Consumer Messages | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...broad jump record with a leap of 24 ft. 6 3/4 in. Hill is amazing to watch. He starts down the runway slowly, weaving from side to side, but when he gets two or three strides from the mark, he explodes, flailing through the air and landing in a cloud of sawdust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Wins Big 3 | 2/20/1967 | See Source »

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