Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testing his machine guns. He fired a 20-round burst, watching the feeder mechanisms. A voice shouted over the interphone: "You got him! Why don't you call out those attacks!" Mulvana looked up just in time to see a Messerschmitt 109, which had popped out of a cloud and into the line of fire, falling away and coming apart...
...There was tall Major Bernard Ferguson, who left a lieutenant colonelcy on Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell's staff to lead a column of raiders. When he watched the Bonchaung railway bridge rise in a cloud of smoke and then settle into the gorge, the Major said softly: "Now I know that all my life I've wanted to blow up bridges...
...Lease observer, whose job will be to stimulate trade with Ethiopia, and to find out what Ethiopia can contribute to the Allied war effort. The U.S. representative will find the Emperor adamant on one point: he is determined not to allow foreign economic penetration or ownership that might further cloud Ethiopia's sovereignty...
...cloud-hung volcanic wastes that are the Aleutians, U.S. forces live as they never dreamed men could-like moles in quarters buried in the ground except for metal or tent roofs. "Not nice," they say, "but safe...
...Electrical charges accumulate in clouds, positive at the top, negative on the bottom. A spark bursts through the air to another cloud or to the earth-lightning. First comes a faint leader stroke, then a huge discharge builds upward from the earth. The slender core (about the thickness of a finger) explodes into a column of fire much greater in diameter. As this heated air cools and contracts, other air rushes in to fill the space. This sudden disturbance makes the thunderclap...