Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...semantical flourishes of Glenn Frank, Vandenburg's promise of "social-mindedness but not socialism"--may they not be an admission by the anti-administration forces that on logical grounds they are licked? And that Republican hopes must rest on their chances to obscure New Deal accomplishments in a cloud of oratorical and emotional overtones...
...middle of a fight, no good fighter admits he is being hurt. Undoubtedly there was some minimizing of damage in British statements. Undoubtedly, too, the North Sea, with its curtains of fog and blankets of cloud, is not a good place for Air Power to prove itself better than Sea Power. But the fact that the British risked their heavy ships within gunshot of Stavanger gave strong evidence of Allied confidence after a week of testing against Marshal Göring's sky terror. The safe landing in Norway of most of three divisions of Allied land forces added...
...moment a dull cloud of misunderstanding hovers over us. But clouds blow away before a clear breeze from the upper skies. If some leader of a political party, some candidate for the presidency, had the courage of Bishop Lawrence to utter plain truths, the cloud would disperse and thousands would leap to his call...
When Huey was shot, Dr. Vidrine operated on him, against the advice of some more conservative surgeons. After Huey's death, an unfair cloud of suspicion drove Dr. Vidrine from Charity, and in 1936 he was succeeded by Dr. George Sam Bel, a courtly Creole. Last year, shortly before the new hospital was finished, Dr. Bel died. New Orleanians whispered that he had killed himself, suspected that he was involved in some dark construction scandal. But the elderly heart specialist, his colleagues proved, was felled by a heart attack...
...such temperatures hydrogen atoms are whipped up to speeds around 100 miles per second. A hot gob of sun-matter would thus tend to expand and dissipate into a formless cloud. Hopeful theory was that this tendency would be counteracted by rapid cooling in open space...