Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, out of nowhere, thick black clouds and the crack of two or three explosions. "A ball of fire came through," said Croupier Susano Gonzalez Perez. "It blew open the door. People were trampled." Some raced toward the picture windows, grabbed chairs and hurled them through the thick plate glass, then jumped 30 ft. to the ground. Bathers near the pool where other survivors landed fled from the spray of shards. Many huddling near the casino's closed door, apparently unable to pry it open, died of smoke inhalation. Others farther inside perished immediately; rescue workers found their charred corpses...
...international tennis circuit, and retired Quarterback Fran Tarkenton collaborated on a pro- football mystery. On occasion, the voyage into another world may be largely imaginary: H.R.F. Keating launched his delightful and convincing comic series about Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police -- the latest is the poignant Under a Monsoon Cloud (Viking; 221 pages; $15.95) -- without ever having set foot in India...
...rather think of this scandal as vindication of a certain lifestyle. The lifestyle that reqires moving to Minnesota and sporting a t-shirt that reads, "Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Mondale." The lining in this cloud is that it may be another 10 years before President Laxalt takes over, and I have to move to Oregon...
...Angeles suburb of Anaheim, the sun was shining but a dense low cloud cover kept plunging the southern California landscape--and even the Castle, wherever it was--into a dark half-light...
...Buswell's subdued bass on up to the surging descants of the soprano line. The 22-note "Amen" dances down like the leaves in the streets outside. For a few moments, it is possible to feel ordinary people lift themselves up into the communion of saints and the cloud of witnesses...