Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fringe of space. There it flies beyond the reach of any known U.S. production plane -and presumably any effective Russian interception. One likely reason for Air Force secrecy: at its solitary height, the U-2 might cruise anywhere unmolested, casing the distant terrain through its all-seeing, cloud-piercing radar...
...meeting with President Ernesto de la Guardia, and surrounded by such security that each day's doings were not announced until the morning of the day they were to take place-and his routes to and from his appointments were not released at all. There was one threatening cloud. Milton had agreed to meet a student delegation at the U.S. embassy. The students' reply: if he did not come to the university, there would be "action...
...from the tapered stern to the golden eagle on its bow, Angelita is the same ship that dazzled bleak Russia in 1937 when its former owner, Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post Davies, and husband Joseph E. Davies, U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., sailed the vessel, then named Sea Cloud, through the Baltic to Leningrad...
...Algeria whose demagogic appeals for integration into France had made him the white hope of the Algerian diehards. At De Gaulle's behest, Soustelle last week slipped off to Paris in a special plane, trailing behind him uncharacteristically moderate remarks about "federal possibilities" for Algeria, and a cloud of rumors that he was about to receive a government post. Watching him go, the diehards suddenly recognized that there might be more than one explanation for the fact that cold-eyed Jacques Soustelle had always modestly refused to accept leadership of the Algerian Committee of Public Safety...
...typical cave factory, workers descend by escalators, take their place at assembly lines lit by mercury lamps. The air is changed four times an hour, given freshness by the addition of ozone. Claustrophobia is avoided through the use of windows that look out on painted landscapes and cloud-filled skies...