Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stones in the Street. Last week, daily papers across the nation front-paged yet another art discovery, in Hollywood. Appropriately supercolossal, the story raised a mushroom cloud of dust and then rapidly evaporated. The announcement was made in the office of Hollywood's wide-screen Lawyer Jerry Giesler. There, Chicago Restorer Alexander Zlatoff-Mirsky announced that an Italian-born TV repairman named Alfonso Folio, now of Pasadena, had been living for years with $10 million in pictures under...
What about the galaxies, which do not expand but merely move farther apart? Gold and Hoyle believe that great clouds of the hot cosmological gas radiate some of their heat away over the course of several billion years. As heat drops, each gas cloud cools and shrinks. At last, it reaches the critical point where gravitational attraction between its gas particles is greater than their tendency to fly apart. Then the great cloud collapses, forming a galaxy or a cluster of galaxies, each of which contains billions of stars. The galaxies, being immersed in the hot gas, continue to move...
Right, slid under a cloud; its coproducer, Mark Goodson, admitted that contestants, until about a year ago, had been tipped beforehand not to bid over certain amounts (because bids over the right price are losing bids...
...Cloud on the horizon, no bigger than a boatswain's hand, as the sun rises on a new era in underwater communication: if radio waves can penetrate water to communicate with submarines, they may eventually be usable with different instrumentation for detection of submarines, which are now immune from anything but surface sighting and chance encounters with short-range sound devices...
...head of steam, the U.S. economy rolled into fall at near top speed. Latest statistics from Government and industry showed that production, employment and the earnings of the nation's corporations were all at high levels. Overhanging this bright picture of performance so far this year was a cloud cast by the effects of the steel strike, which will be felt for weeks to come (see below...