Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being good Americans, we blurted it right as blunt as could be: "When is your magazine going to be published?" we shouted, looking him straight in the eye. "Oh," he replied, "we're waiting for a major victory," and with that he zoomed up the street in a cloud of carbon monoxide...
...front dashed Lung Yun (the Cloud Dragon), Governor of Yunnan Province. With the dead general at his feet, he called on the little soldiers for another last stand. The Jap would soon cross the Salween. His rolling stock was already massing on the bluff. He would have to be stopped. It would be hard. Every beaten soldier there knew that the Japs across the Salween were from the crack Red Dragon armored division...
...side the dead general lay where he had fallen. His men, shouting their war cries, hurried down to the river and sniped at the Jap as he ran. Down the road into Burma fled the Red Dragon, broken, bereft of his trucks and equipment. Six American youngsters and the Cloud Dragon had saved a bitter...
Pilots Kenneth Jernstedt and William Reed popped out of a cloud into the hot blue sky over Burma. Below them, on the Jap-held airdrome at Moulmein, 25 or more enemy planes were lined up in tempting rows. The two "Flying Tigers" clawed the field with incendiary bullets, and Jernstedt dropped small fire bombs which he had packed into his flare release. The field was a junk heap of burning, exploding Jap planes when Jernstedt and Reed gunned their P-405 away, over the Salween River...
Savage as the fighting was and had been, it would soon out-savage all that had gone before. All along the 1,200-mile front, the certain threat of a new and deadlier battle, to begin with the drying of the ground, hung like the storm cloud of a hurricane's second and deadliest phase. Against its break, Russians slashed deep into Nazi positions. Nazis hung grimly to what they had been ordered to hold...