Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then in 1965 things began to move fast. The merged Dayton Journal Herald offered her a twice-a-week column, and only three weeks later, the Newsday syndicate took her up. The phrase is exact; in journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud. By the end of her first year, she had 36 papers, including Newsday, the Denver Post, the Minneapolis Star and the Atlanta Constitution. She began to be recognized in supermarkets. One day in 1967, Bombeck remembers, she was kneeling on the floor of the bathroom in Centerville, laying a piece...
...most passionate devotees. Across this land some 10 million cigar smokers yearn for a front-page picture of Mondale, the only dedicated cigar smoker among the Democratic contenders, with his Punch panatela at a defiant angle. Or maybe 30 seconds on Tom Brokaw's news, showing a sweet cloud of Partagas No. 1 smoke carrying off the burdens of another campaign...
...called back. But now that the storm was actually upon them, Stagg offered what he called "a gleam of hope for you, sir." The next day, June 6, there would be some clearing of the skies, a break of perhaps 36 hours, no more. The cloud ceiling over the Normandy beaches would be about 3,000 feet, the waves only about three feet high...
More than two decades have passed since Jessica Mitford, in her 1963 exposé The American Way of Death, attacked the U.S. funeral industry as a "grotesque cloud-cuckoo-land where the trappings of Gracious Living are transformed, as in a nightmare, into the trappings of Gracious Dying." Mitford accused morticians of inflating funeral costs by foisting upon grieving customers such frills as high-fashion gravewear for the body and ornate caskets equipped with comfortable innerspring mattresses. Though the book stirred public indignation and helped lead to numerous investigations of the funeral business, it was not until last week that...
...there's a dark cloud in all the Crimson optimism it's that of its three home losses in the last five years, two of them have come at the hands of UMass...