Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first 20 minutes of most games, the women cagers had little problem grabbing a lead. But between halves, a cloud of inertia and inaccuracy would settle over them and defeat would soon follow...
...Amboseli, under the snow-covered dome of Mount Kilimanjaro, a herd of elephants moves like a dense gray cloud, slow motion, in lumbering solidity: a mirage of floating boulders. Around them dust devils rise spontaneously out of the desert, little tornadoes that swirl up on the thermals and go jittering and rushing among the animals like evil spirits busy in the primal garden...
...present for the Ad Board's initial hearings. They will then be able to hear the Senior Tutor's presentation and respond to it. Students will also be able to bring into the proceeding as an adviser any member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The cloud of mystery and secrecy which previously surrounded the workings of the Ad Board should begin to dissipate and give way to more formal and regular, less subjective and arbitrary procedures. The presence of the accused and their opportunity to make a rebuttal should result in a Board less likely to accept, without...
...will cloud the future for young people," says Riesman. The education expert published "On Higher Education" in 1980 and continues to study issues of leadership and succession at the nation's colleges and universities...
...then signed Reagan's initials at the bottom. The White House was at pains to point to the paper's justification of weapons deliveries as a way of fostering ties to Iran's moderate elements. Yet the Senate report says that Casey had devised this line of reasoning to cloud the true arms-for-hostages nature of the arrangement. The document claims that arms shipments "may well be our only way to achieve the release of the Americans held in Beirut...