Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, about 20 students signed a petition asking that Autherine be allowed to come back to her classes. Then, at a convocation of 7,500 students, President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael finally took a stand. He demanded that all students help maintain order to "remove the cloud which, in the minds of many, now hangs over our beloved alma mater." Though the university had fought by every legal means to keep segregation, he said, it could not fly in the face of a court decree ordering the trustees to take in a Negro. "No great university can afford to defy...
...deflation of 19th century romanticism, and Susan B. lived it, they fought essentially similar enemies. To Gertrude, the commonplace was not necessarily banal; it had, rather, a universality which made it significant. Gertrude S.'s favorite course at Radcliffe, in those calm pre-General Education days, was in cloud formations. ("San Francisco and the Rhone Valley have the nicest clouds...
Most astronomers now think that the sun and its planets were once a great cloud of gas and dust which gradually condensed around a central mass. That mass became the sun. As the gas cloud grew smaller and denser, some of its material spun out to form a flat disk. After a billion years or so, the disk broke up into loose blobs called protoplanets. Each of these contracted independently, forming its own core. Any material left outside eventually turned into satellites revolving around a planet...
When hurricanes are very young, they are still feeble, and there is at least a possibility that modern cloud-seeding methods (with dry ice or silver iodide particles) can keep them from forming an ordered, destructive doughnut. Full grown, a hurricane develops more energy in each second than several atomic bombs, and nothing can be done about it directly. But there is a possibility that a hurricane's symmetry can be damaged. If the rate of energy release in one quadrant of a hurricane can be increased or decreased, the storm may change its direction, perhaps missing by miles...
Martyrs, Inc. The persecution complex that darkens, like a private rain cloud, the brows of most abstract expressionists can only be called subjective. On an objective level, the leaders of the movement have done quite well. The painters are sur rounded by adoring disciples. Their works have been showed and admired in a dozen American cities and also in London, Paris and Venice. The works of the eight painters on these pages hang in excellent Manhattan galleries, and more than 100 of them have been bought by museums at four-figure prices...