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Word: cloud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first experimental evidence that something quite extraordinary happened then," says Physics Nobel Laureate Luis Alvarez, who gave his son a helping hand. A supernova that could have wiped out the dinosaurs? "A very small probability," says Alvarez père. Also possible but improbable: a cloud of interstellar gas or a large meteorite. On with the parlor game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Doomed Dino | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...greater stupidity prevailed in high offices in Washington, where bright individuals let egos, ambition and bureaucratic momentum cloud their collective judgment. Worse yet, Wyden believes that "it could happen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blunders by Men Wearing Blinders | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...anything, the Red Sox are a more unified ball club this summer, deeper at every position lacking internal squabbles and peeves, and collectively more healthy. Only Carlton Fisk dangles on the injury list like a dark cloud, and his availability during the next two months could be crucial to the success...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Gerbil's Prayer | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

...plus who were bussed in for the occasion--stood the containment building which will enclose the nuclear core, that energy-and-radiation-producing network of fuel rods, uranium pellets and cooling pipes. The containment, looking out over Long Island Sound, its grey exterior matching the thick cloud covering above, was the symbol of the nuclear power plant; to those who had come to protest it, it represented all that was evil about nukes. Though no protesters would actually reach the reactor building that Sunday afternoon (and only one tried), it was visible throughout the 850-sq.-acre enclosed construction site...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Welcome to Shoreham | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...research laboratory to clone worthy souls. Mirabell, the name Merrill gives his chief informant, explains: A MERE 2 MILLION CLONED SOULS LISTEN TO EACH OTHER WHILE/ OUTSIDE THEY HOWL & PRANCE SO RECENTLY OUT OF THE TREES. What has alarmed Heaven and agitated Mirabell to speak is a recent cloud on the human horizon: A CONCERTED USE OF ATOMIC/ WEAPONRY NOW FALLING INTO HANDS OF ANIMALS SOULS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Four Poets and Their Songs | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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