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Word: clouded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tops of the tallest spires are the newest accretions: huge five-pointed crystal stars which catch the sun's rays. The tall Spasski clock overlooking Red Square strikes the hour, and chimes. From cupolas, cornices, eaves and ledges a flock of ravens rises in a black cloud, filling the air with cawing, then settles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: The Cat in the Kremlin | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...Cloud 9 (Fri. 8 p.m., CBS). A new network series of fantasy stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 10, 1950 | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...Guild started paying weekly benefits ranging from $25 to $80 per striker (depending on size of family). Some idle mechanical workers signed on as extra hands at other evening and morning newspapers, which were making advertising hay while the World-Telegram and Sun was behind the strike cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Deadline at Dawn | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...first, from a distance, the dust cloud kicked up by the prancing pinwheels looked like a small grey ball, growing darker and darker. Then at the President's box, the blue uniforms of his honor guard began to turn a dusty white. Suddenly, as the helicopters changed direction, M. Auriol himself could be dimly seen making violent gestures-that were clearly not applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet -for Helicopters | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

When it was over, Choreographer Lifar himself seemed to have disappeared in a cloud of dust. Reporters raced to the committee box. Why had there been no music for Lifar's ballet? Said one grim spokesman: there was "no ballet." But, insisted the reporters, it was billed in the program as a ballet; what were Lifar and all those helicopters doing out there? Said the spokesman, his face set: "No ballet. Just helicopters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet -for Helicopters | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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