Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night he attended an hour-long reception and then marched into the main dining room of the Ambassador Hotel for his birthday banquet. In his main address, General MacArthur made a cloud-high. impassioned appeal for "the abolition of war,"* but his words-in vintage MacArthur oratory-on youth and age are likely to be remembered longer: "Youth is not entirely a time of life-it is a state of mind. It is not wholly a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips or supple knees. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor...
Wind-whipped blizzards added to the confusion. All over Britain, snow, freeze-ups, floods and gale winds appeared in full fury. The freak week began with the biggest, blackest cloud of smog within London's memory, suddenly enveloping the nation's noontime capital in midnight darkness. Pedestrians scurried for shelter, and one bearded old prophet paraded in front of Croydon Town Hall crying aloud, "The end of the world has come." The thickest snows in eight years covered all British counties except Cornwall, which had instead the worst floods of half a century. The National Automobile Association officially...
...under its tail. The plane is placed on the trailer and the pilot climbs aboard and buttons himself in. The trailer's arms unfold and tilt the nose upward. Then the pilot starts the jet engine. When it is turning at full power, an enormous flame and a cloud of smoke spurt out of the booster bottle. In a few seconds the plane is airborne. The exhausted rocket drops off, and the pilot proceeds. His sudden departure resembles a scene from a space-flight movie, and the ground around the launcher is overcast with smoke, but at no time...
...lashed together by a strap behind his back, and his wrists were lashed together in front. His legs were tied in three places: thighs, knees and ankles The nine big rockets (total thrust 40,000 lbs.) fired all together, and the sled leaped down the rails, leaving behind ; huge cloud of smoke and overtaking a jetplane flying overhead. When the rocket: burned out. the sled was moving at 63 m.p.h. Then the water brake took hold throwing fountains of spray, and brough it to a rapid stop...
...Dally News editorial commented that "Yale's authorities are almost undoubtedly too convinced of their own rectitude to alter their rush and unwise decision to an Countryman. But let the thought remain with them that the cloud of mediocrity will hover more menacingly that ever over Yale after he has departed...