Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...split. It involves a number of people who are perhaps dissatisfied and have broken away. They will find that the vast majority of the party's members and supporters will not follow them. Dr. Treurnicht is what I would call a word artist. He uses words to cloud the issue. On basic matters, he has no policy. Even before I made the statement [on power sharing with some non-whites], Treurnicht was already at loggerheads with the party. The statement is an excuse they used. I think they have been organizing for quite a while to take a stand...
Gavin posed some of his most aggressive queries in the newsletters he began producing in the early '70s, nestled in innocuous cloud-balloons in the corners of his whimsical covers drawings: "Does Harvard's treatment of Mr. Schiff's gift warn would-be donors?" The great philanthropist had died bitter and disappointed in 1920 after seeing the University turn its back on his generosity...
...threat of war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands caught the U.S. unawares-"an intelligence failure on our part," as one American official put it-and that uncertainty cast a dark cloud over the President's holiday. Just before leaving Washington on Wednesday, Reagan decided to send Secretary of State Alexander Haig to London and Buenos Aires to see if he could do anything to head off a confrontation...
...waterfront in Mobile, Ala. To make way for a $15 million port expansion, the city fathers decided to demolish a five-story riverfront warehouse. A TV crew was invited to watch the fun as engineers planted 150 Ibs. of dynamite around the foundation. Then a mighty roar and a cloud of dust-but only the first floor was blown out. The rest dropped onto the foundation intact. The next day workmen tried again. And again and again and again. BUILDING 5, DOCKS 0 was the headline in the Mobile Register. And no wonder: constructed by the WPA in the 1930s...
...From the cloud of figures and proposals. Cambridge residents have a chance to make a crystal-clear statement today. By voting yes twice, they can say loud and clear that the shadowy outlines of tax reform do not make cuts to service acceptable, or any more bearable...