Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that these "tremendous changes" occurred within the last twelve months, which means that these changes were not produced by our first H-bomb test in 1952. The inference is obvious, therefore, that the difference between the new and the other absolute weapons is that the new bomb produces a cloud of fairly heavy particles. And these, being fairly heavy, fall out immediately and locally while they are still dangerous to life. To all this, only one point needs to be added-the H-bomb tested by the Russians last summer was of the new type...
Frenzy's Snarl. Successive blasts jolted Chestertown for a full 50 minutes; then, for four hours, rockets sporadically whistled skyward and briefly flashed. Some townsfolk had seen a jet plane, or two, or three, flying over seconds before the first detonation. Others watched the grey cloud rise from the plant and thought it looked mushroom-shaped. Mothers gathered their children, put the little ones into baby buggies and trundled them through traffic across the Chester River Bridge. There Chestertown's southbound refugees tangled with rescuers headed north-civil defense disaster units, firemen and police from neighboring towns...
...View. On swept the shadow at 3,000 m.p.h. The Shetland Islands were covered with storm clouds, but southern Britain was reasonably clear, and millions of Britons saw the partial eclipse. Most spectacular view of totality was from 21 Canberra jet bombers of the R.A.F., which flew so high (50,000 ft.) that the shadow looked like an oval black shape in the cloud deck far below...
...Mayas. Much of the rest of the country is also dank rainforest. Out of these green lowlands, along the Pacific Coast, rise mountain ranges, mistily blue and sullenly beautiful, that cup seven sparkling lakes and top out in 33 symmetrical volcanoes, each with a puff of cloud caught eternally around its peak. Fertile volcanic soil six feet thick covers the high plateaus and shaded valleys; it is in the highlands that 80% of Guatemalans live...
Meantime, Runner Bannister got caught up in a dizzy, two-day whirl in Manhattan, amiably submitted to interviews, posed for pictures, appeared on a few radio-TV shows free from a sponsor's taint, and took in the sights. Another compromising situation was averted in the cloud-banked Rainbow Room of Rockefeller Center when Bannister accepted a small silver cup, guaranteed to be worth no more than $32.90, from a Southern California amateur athletic group. It was a substitute for a $300 sterling silver bowl-the Roger Bannister Trophy-which he could have received only in defiance of British...