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Word: clouded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across South Amboy windows burst into hurling, razorlike shards. Plaster crashed down from ceilings, doors blew in, walls bulged. The lights went out. All over town, the clocks stopped at 7:26. River mud, coal and metal fragments hurtled down from the sky. From the docks a huge mushroom cloud rose grey-white and languid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: The Last Shipment | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

There was only one cloud to mar the horizon. The tea ration, announced Food Minister Maurice Webb, would soon be cut from 2½ to two ounces a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Point Comfort | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

Wallace E. Howell '36, Harvard meteorologist, made a three-and-one-half hour cloud-seeding flight Saturday over New York City's Catskill watershed, and said he saw showers which "appeared to be the result of the seeding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rainmaker Seeds Catskill Showers | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...rainmaker dropped about 50 pounds of dry ice, but said he doubted that a great deal of rain was produced. It was his second cloud-seeding flight and his fourth flight over the watershed since the city engaged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rainmaker Seeds Catskill Showers | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...ordered seedlings of silver iodide smoke from the ground level. This method was also tried between 1 and 4:15 p.m. Saturday. Howell said that there were two showers east of the Catskills when he began seeding but that "there were no showers over the Catskills until after the cloud-seeding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rainmaker Seeds Catskill Showers | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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