Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the fiery steeds that pranced off with Mazeppa were Black Bess, Flying Cloud, Toodles, and one sobersided mount named James Melville...
...across the bow. Sponsor Marshall's great-greatgrandfather was Chief Justice Marshall, for whose funeral Philadelphia's Liberty Bell tolled till it cracked in 1835. Just as the new Washington eased into the water last week, the sky darkened, but not with planes. It was just a cloud momentarily dimming...
Frank Craven is Our Town's spokesman. As he stands against a cloud-piled sky, he might be any kind of American, a farmer, an editor, a bookie. He is the village druggist. Like the other villagers, he is dirt-plain, sensible, forthright. Tolerance with him is a form of humor. He never loses his balance in between. Unlike the other villagers, he is articulate. Like most Americans, he prefers to let things and people speak for themselves. He just introduces them...
While Dean Chen busied himself trying to revive in Free China such chieh-chi, the seasonal cloud bank which has shrouded Chungking and the upper Yangtze valley since last autumn (effectively preventing Japanese air bombing) began fatefully to lift last week. In Chungking squads of police, under stern orders from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, worked down street after street driving out of Chungking and into the suburbs thousands of Chinese whom they hoped thus to save from the expected bombs. Many Chinese merchants, restaurant keepers and singsong-house proprietors vigorously protested that they were doing a fine business in Chungking, preferred...
Last week, before the American News paper Publishers Association at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Bill Knudsen blew off a cloud of steam over the strained relations of big business and Government in the U. S., let go the biggest puff on the subject of big pay for industrialists. Excerpt...