Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine loess dust on the rutted dirt road from Suchow to the front, 25 miles to the east, was churned by our jeep into a long brown cloud which hung in the still air. We could hear the distant thump of artillery and the crunch of aerial bombs. Ahead and in some hills to the south, puffs of white billowed where shells and bombs found targets. In a village which had been retaken from the Communists the day before, an old peasant woman squatted at a roadside pond unconcernedly whacking at her laundry with a wooden paddle. Behind...
...Tours (538-593) tells that, as the apostles were watching round the dying Mary, Jesus appeared with angels and committed the soul of His mother to the Archangel Michael. Next day, as the body was being carried to the grave, He appeared again and carried it in a cloud to Heaven...
After six passes had emptied the plane, MacWilliams lowered the wheels and circled down for a landing. The heavy plane hit the rutted field in a cloud of dust, bounced a hundred yards, settled again and ground to a stop at the very end of the runway. Twenty minutes later two shells screamed in from the south and tore into the ground across the runway, abeam of the plane...
...outdoors presented here is one of cloud-filled skies and dust-covered prairie. It is a world handled by a small hand of cow-punchers. They cope with their world not be shooting pistols in the air against a tastefully setting sun; they are more genuine than that. They stand guard in the rain; they gripe about their food; they get tried and try to quit. Not once do they leer at some dance-hall floozy in a clap-board Honky-tonk. "Red River" avoids this sort of bunkum and gives a convincing picture of a cowboy's existence, laced...
...object of their veneration is enshrined in a white stone building in the Pare de St. Cloud. When the pilgrims have filed down three flights of basement stairs, they will be confronted by two iron doors. Behind those doors, in a massive concrete vault, lies the object...