Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Siesta's End. First light brought waves of U.S. B57 Canberra jets and prop-driven Skyraiders, which swept in under 800-ft. cloud cover to napalm, rocket and strafe the Viet Cong out of town. Final toll: 161 government troops (including five U.S.), to 184 Viet Cong killed. In spite of its obvious propaganda value, the Communists had been unable to hold the provincial capital...
...weeks U.S. seismologists had kept their ears to the ground in hopes of catching the faint tremor. High-flying U-2 reconnaissance jets, mounted with fallout-collecting air scoops, stood ready along the shores of Asia to fly at a moment's notice. Then, sure enough, another mushroom cloud rose slowly into the skies over Lop Nor in China's harsh Takla Makan Desert...
...looked more like Hoss Cartwright than Miss Kitty. Billy the Id has been described as an "adenoidal idiot." And until about 1890, when smokeless powder came into general use, acrobatic gun battles-with snipers falling off balconies into water trough-were unheard of, because each shot kicked up a cloud of acrid black smoke that soon blinded everybody...
...course, every silver lining has a cloud or two. Might not the great Form 1040 income-tax fiasco (see following story) cut into consumer spending? And what if there were to be a strike in the steel industry, where labor-management negotiations last week seemed to be nearing a dead end? No matter. Most Americans would still find "buoyant" and "ebullient" excellent words to describe the state of the economy...
...those participating in tomorrow's march should be clear in their own minds about what kind of opposition they are expressing. The advantages of a march lie ultimately in the weight of numbers and the impact of publicity. All too often, the confusion and emotion of demonstration tend to cloud the content of the positions proposed. If protest of government policy in Vietnam is to be both constructive and convincing, it must include a full understanding of the Administration's intentions, the policy alternatives--suggested, and the implications of those alternatives--and not merely songs, pickets and eloquent speeches...