Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annie lifted off smoothly, her twin orange exhaust tails bright against the overcast. Up she shot, straight into the first cloud layer at 3,000 ft. as the shock wave, like a thousand backfires, rumbled up the beach and welled over the spectators. MacNabb roared into his headset: "She's still going! She's still going! She's out of sight, and she's still going!" Bursting through the low clouds, Big Annie flashed into view again for a second or two, then bored into the clouds at 8,000 ft., her course true, her engines...
...mile subway system was disrupted, its 4,700,000 riders were disoriented. Within two hours the city found itself locked in the biggest, messiest transportation scramble it had ever seen. Commuters flooded to the streets, turning the surface transportation system as well into a cramped, cough-provoking cloud of chrome, curses and exhaust...
BISHOP JOSEPH KIWANUKA, of Masaka in Uganda, was consecrated at Rome in 1939, the first native African bishop of modern times. Swirling round his diocese in a 1956 Chevrolet and a cloud of dust. Bishop Kiwanuka, 58, oversees the work of 58 African priests, plus 15 white priests who work as teachers in schools and seminaries, are being replaced as native priests are trained to fill their posts. Many Masaka seminarians take specialist courses outside Africa after their ordination, and Bishop Kiwanuka himself hopes to make his second visit to the U.S. next year to study sociology. His biggest problem...
...explosion!" an observation pilot cried into his radio. "Black smoke is now over the entire area-We do not see the satellite rocket-We do not see the rocket that is carrying our satellite-The rocket may not have gotten off-There is a very large black smoke cloud-a very large black area around the location that the explosion occurred." By then the Vanguard had dropped dismally back on its tail, its nose section askew; it had burst into varicolored fire and flame...
...handlebar-mustached uncle of King Paul of Greece and Britain's Prince Philip, a onetime vice admiral who won fame in 1891 when he disarmed a would-be assassin of his cousin, Russia's Grand Duke Nicholas (later Czar Nicholas II); after long illness; in Saint-Cloud, France...