Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Come to think of it, what would Gary Grant look like stepping out of his Rolls-Royce in a cloud of Sy Devore's lined lint...
...tropical Atlantic off the northeast coast of South America lay a doughnut-shaped cloud mass of warm air, gradually rising and circling in counterclockwise motion as a drop in atmospheric pressure sucked layers of cooler air in beneath it. The weather men named the mass Flora-sixth hurricane of the 1963 season-and commenced the routine precautions that in recent years have taken some of the bite out of the fierce storms: hurricane-hunter planes to check course, speed, wind velocity, intensity of the rain; detailed advisories and instructions to everyone in the storm's path...
...colleges have always had their ancient rivalries, marching bands and majorettes. But their battle cry was usually "three yards and a cloud of dust." The pros learned that bands can be hired, Copa girls can be taught to twirl a baton, and all rivalries get ancient after a while. When they also discovered the forward pass-the tantalizer, the equalizer, something everyone in the stands could see-they were on their way to owning the world. The forward pass was not invented by the pros; it had been around since 1906. But in the hands of such quarterbacks as Sammy...
...against which Hercules braces his forward foot, of his upraised brow and of the line of his head, body and right thigh, and the horizontals of his extended left leg and arm. Less rigid, but little less effective, is the way in which the soft, swelling contours of his "Cloud" are echoed by those of the nude who reclines...
...teachers on a par with its richer suburbs, but working conditions are antiquated. Teachers must still munch lunch at their desks while policing the kids. Young teachers avoid Boston, and the average age of teachers is close to 50. Apathy, fed by authoritarian administrators, wreathes the system like a cloud of poison...