Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last night at about 8:15 o'clock a chemical gas bomb, hurled through an open window, caused a choking cloud of smoke to infiltrate throughout the CRIMSON building, interrupting the work on this issue of the paper as it was going to press...
...Mother," the cloud-shrouded tallest of Rabaul's volcanic peaks, and the lesser "Daughters" on either side, brooded somberly. Australian officials recalled the report which was made by vulcanologists more than three years ago after an inspection of Rabaul's treacherous strata: another eruption was likely to occur at any moment...
...formation. Fourteen Jap fighters jumped them, shot down the win ship "Fyrtle Myrtle" (socalled because one of its crew was a new father, another expectant). Then the Zeros shot out one of "Golden Gator's" engines; the pilot, Captain Frederick S. Hinze Jr., dived the ship into a cloud...
Laboring over the cruel mountain "Hump Route" from India, a U.S. transport plane drew near its China base with 5,000 precious pounds of mail from home. The pilot, Lieut. Roy Thomas, noticed a scudding cloud ahead. Then...
...Suddenly we saw a ragged edge, nosed up, and then boom!-the damned cloud had a rock in it. We thought that was the end and expected to spin. Instead we gained a little altitude. . . . The hydraulic system was out and we discovered a wheel was gone. . . . Then we found we had some control and [CoPilot Lieut. Cecil] Gibson agreed he was game to try to land. It took all our strength, both fighting all the way, to bring her down. . . . We knew a lot of guys in China would be mighty disappointed if the mail was lost...