Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a northeast wind finally blew down the gulch, Boyer pressed the button. A cloud of grey smoke rose up with a ball of fire at its heart; out of it spouted flashes of light like giant Fourth of July sparklers. Observers heard a loud bang and felt a modest shock wave. As the cloud began to dissipate, three Air Force bombers swooped into it, collecting air samples. Then men wearing respirators and full safety suits stepped cautiously within 200 yds. of ground zero. Kiwi had disappeared. Nothing was left on the seared site but the railroad car with...
...Bear Lake, where Snow Summit will have more than 20,000 people schussing and slaloming next weekend. Some citizens of Phoenix, Albuquerque, and points in between will strap skis on top of their station wagons, in apparent defiance of the dry, hot desert air, and head for Ski Cloud Croft or Sierra Blanca in the Sacramento mountains north of Alamogordo...
...products, including Ozalid dry printing machines and the film and camera with which the astronauts took color photographs of space. It also produces synthetic detergents and is the only U.S. company making high pressure acetylene derivatives that do everything from taking the sting out of iodine to the cloud out of beer...
...problems that the defeated Conservatives had struggled with for months. The pound has been put in peril, confidence in Britain's ability to adjust to the demands of the day has shrunk, and over the island that Blake called a "green and pleasant land" has grown an economic cloud that confuses, frightens and frequently infuriates its stalwart inhabitants...
Like a Fire. Last week, only a few weeks after the pound underwent one of its greatest tests of the century, Britain's cloud seemed to darken perceptibly. Talk swept London's City-and the Continent-about the further lack of trust in Labor, about the possibility of the pound's devaluation, and about a deterioration in the balance of trade. Though not all-perhaps not much-of the gossip was solidly based on fact, it burned as persistently and as contagiously as a fire in a peat...