Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tower, 160 feet high, loomed last week above the trees of Paris' Park St. Cloud, looking like a giant Tinkertoy sparkling in the sun. The tower is made of steel tubes, supporting scattered metal plaques colored red, blue, yellow, orange, brown and silver. Part of an international building show, it is meant to dramatize the possibility of a new kind of monumental sculpture...
...their circulations large and many of their readers puzzle fans. The contest, it insisted, was "moral, ethical, legal, legitimate and proper" and Father Graf had "by implication, smear and innuendo impugned the morals, ethics, motives and intelligence of the council [and] permitted numerous errors and distortions of fact . . . to cloud the issue...
Britain's Harold Macmillan added: "The tensions between East and West have seemed unending. But recently there has been a lifting of the cloud . . ." Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak was carried away: "Let us make no attempt to explain or even to understand all the whys and wherefores; let us merely note, but note with joy, that throughout the world there is at least a desire to talk...
...Solar Clouds. What had changed since 1951? For one thing, Professor Neher pointed out, the sun had decreased its "activity," shooting out less gaseous matter than it did a few years before. He believes that this thin stuff, mostly hydrogen, drifts in enormous, tenuous clouds through the solar system. Each cloud carries its own magnetic field, and when the clouds are numerous, they fill the solar system with magnetic obstacles in the path of the cosmic rays. The weak ones cannot make the grade. They curve off into space and never reach the inner region where the earth revolves...
...orchestra's dampened debut before France's TV watchers was a cloud-high point of a seven-week European tour that had already won raves in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and England. As the French cameras blinked on, Conductor Sirpo led the girls through a solemn, contemplative Corelli air, a Vivaldi piece (with violin solo by tall, blonde Claire Hodgkins), some modern variations by Alexander Tansman and an allegro by Stamitz. They played with fire and discipline that astonished their listeners-and played everything without a sheet of music. When they had done, the TV crew crowded around...