Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This recent observation by Indian Affairs Commissioner John Collier drew editorial comment from two widely disparate sources last week. The New York Herald Tribune cheerfully declared that at least an Indian President would have dignity, a sly and refreshing humor. Wrote Charles Round Low Cloud, longtime (since 1919) conductor of "The Indian News" column in the Black River Falls (Wis.) Banner-Journal: "Yes. It would take a good thinking man because some man you will think always a good fellow everywhere...
...Winnebago who spent five years at Pennsylvania's famed Carlisle Indian School as a second-string quarterback, squat, copper-colored, greying Charlie Cloud is described as one who "thinks in Indian and writes in English." Thumbing a ride weekly from the Indian mission six miles north to the Banner-Journal office, he calmly usurps Editor Harriet Thomas Noble's desk to pencil his weekly stint on scratch paper, after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half...
...lumbered over the Italian fort. Fuses were lighted with cigarets, but there was almost disaster when the bomb stuck in the door. Finally the crew, their backs braced against the fuselage, managed to get the bomb away. The Valencia lurched crazily as the fort, squarely hit, disappeared in a cloud of smoke...
...despite his deep devotion to flying and fighting, modest, easygoing Colonel Hubert Zemke, of Missoula, Mont., finally decided that this would be his last combat mission before going on noncombat duty. Leading his fighter group in an attack on Hamburg, he ran into weather trouble, disappeared into a cloud. Last week the "fightingest" U.S. pilot commander in Europe was reported to be a prisoner in Germany...
...October Air Transport, a veteran airlines pilot, Pat Curtin, tells some of the airmen's strange stories about migrating birds. Most collisions occur at night or in clouds, when both planes and birds are flying blind. Migrating birds usually fly at night, stopping to feed in daylight. Ornithologists agree that they seem to have a sixth sense which enables them to fly even in "instrument weather." Curtin says that one pilot, chasing flocks of ducks, has seen them take cover in clouds. Once a covey flew round & round inside a small cloud while he circled it in his plane...