Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next two hours police chased the agile, cursing demonstrators around the 30-acre Temple Mount and through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalem's Old City. Protesters, tourists and the police themselves choked on the cloud of tear gas that enshrouded the golden Dome of the Rock, the ciborium that stands on the site from which the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven on a white horse. At one point, after a police officer was beaten, his comrades chased a group of demonstrators into al-Aqsa mosque itself, normally off limits to any military personnel. The fearsome...
...someone at the White House was in charge. Sweating, a crack in his voice, he uttered the immortal words, "I am in control here." He came off like a character from Dr. Strangelove, and has never been allowed to forget it. Bumper stickers were recently spotted bearing a mushroom cloud with the slogan HAIG FOR PRESIDENT. LET'S GET IT OVER WITH...
...basketballs from up to 2,000 miles away. The Cobra Dane station in Alaska monitors missiles launched from the Soviet mainland, while Pave Paws radar systems from California to Cape Cod watch for sea-launched warheads. The new Lacrosse satellite will carry lightweight radar systems that can penetrate heavy cloud layers and monitor Soviet ground activity at night...
...driving a combine himself after school and during the summers. It was a hot and sweaty job in that part of the Soviet Union, where summer temperatures reach well into the 90s, and the combines had no cabins. After a few minutes the driver would be surrounded by a cloud of grain chaff and dust that made breathing difficult. In winter it was so cold that Gorbachev had to wrap himself in straw to keep from freezing. He stood it well enough to be awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1949, a rare honor...
Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Anne Constable, Michael Duffy, Glenn Garelik, Hays Gorey, Ted Gup, David Halevy, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Neil MacNeil, Jay Peterzell, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Mary Cronin, Margot Hornblower, Jennifer Hull, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush...