Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day he made his formal entrance into Athens. The day was bright, but, as the King stepped ashore, a small cloud veiled the sun. George looked up nervously. There was delay while elaborate security preparations were completed (no flower-throwing, no rooftop rubbering). Then, while thousands cheered and cannon boomed 101-gun salutes, the King drove through the streets, laid a wreath on the tomb of Greece's Unknown Soldier, attended a Te Deum Mass...
...younger pilots needed accurate navigation to get anywhere above the overcast, but Mantz flew along at 30,000 feet, using instruments, but to hear him tell it, following his nose. The first time he saw ground was at Pueblo, Colo. "I spotted it through a break in the clouds just off to the right where I wanted to be." He sat back, gazing at the steamy floor of cloud just below him. "I was sloppy . . . sometimes I'd let the plane climb as much as 1,000 feet without doing anything about it," said he. "I was figuring...
Toward dawn a thundering explosion rocked the bullet-riddled jail front. A dynamite charge had ripped away the porch, and behind the billowing cloud of smoke and rubble the sporadic firing ceased. From within a voice called: "Stop it. You're killing us. Let us give...
...Weather Bureau had launched a project to find out all that man can know about a storm, from its fleecy birth to crescendo climax. Because thunderstorms are flying's greatest hazard, the investigators hope their study will develop reliable methods of recognizing and avoiding dangerous types of cloud...
...A.A.F.'s Pinecastle Field, near Orlando, Fla., where afternoon thunderheads are a daily midsummer occurrence, five Black Widow planes take off each day to fly in the hazardous clouds. Guided by a radar control station called Ivy, and attended by a host of balloon-borne instruments, they measure air turbulence, the velocity of up-and downdrafts, temperature, pressure, humidity, 'cloud heights, the size of ice particles. Though no planes have been lost, they have taken a fearful buffeting; one pilot, whose instruments were knocked out by lightning, found when he fought his way out of the storm that...