Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wind had to be strong and in the right direction, and the warm air at the surface had to be subject to a strong lifting action. When these conditions (and more subtle ones) coincided, a tornado was likely to lick out from the black center of a cloud...
...Jones hopes that his system will be ready next year for practical operation. Then the Weather Bureau can pinpoint an individual cloud and warn the people in its path to get under cover quick...
...Cabinet ministers were on the tarmac at 6 p.m. when the gleaming Soviet plane taxied into Moscow's main airport. As Nehru, in Gandhi cap, white churidar (trousers) and brown sherwani (coat), a red rose in his second buttonhole, stepped from the plane, 18 Russian children released a cloud of white doves and rushed forward with huge bouquets of flowers. So engulfed in flowers was Nehru that Marshal Georgy Zhukov ordered Red army guards to pass the flowers over to Indian embassy officials. Premier Bulganin came forward and introduced his Cabinet, all wearing broad-bottom trousers and broader, slap...
Pursuit Is All. As Goodie Knight sees his horizon, there is only one threatening cloud: Richard Nixon. Publicly, the governor and the Vice President are on crisp good terms, but in private, Knight regards Nixon as a political upstart. The coolness between the two began when Dick Nixon returned to California in triumph after the 1952 Chicago convention. Goodie dutifully turned up at the airport to greet him, but when Nixon's supporters pushed Goodie out of camera range, he felt slighted, and huffed back home. The bad blood is still simmering...
...Road Back. But the campaign against the church was not a success. Indians were apt to cut off the ears of the government agents sent to incite them against their priests. Slowly, the cloud of terror lifted. President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40) was a far-leftist politically, but he quietly called off the anticlerical crusade, and the church began to build its way back...