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Word: clouded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more been designated Premier, as well as President. Colonel Nasser was stepping back down to Vice Premier. The sudden Cabinet shifts of a fortnight earlier were rescinded. "The setup [is] as before," said the R.C.C. All the stormy doings of two weeks, it added, had been but "a passing cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Passing Cloud | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...shrewd tactician, Young opened his campaign by trying to win White over to his side. He invited him to lunch in the lofty Cloud Club dining room atop Manhattan's Chrysler Building. There he painted a glowing picture of the Central's future, with business booming enough so that the price of Central stock would quadruple to 100. Young's plans for the Central call for borrowing $250 million and replacing all passenger cars with his "Train X" (a low, two-wheeled car that "flows around curves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: The Search for Aunt Jane | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...land of aching distances and blazing sun, of endless, string-straight roads and dusty little towns. Oil derricks stand on its horizons, and beef cattle move unseen amid its dreary leagues of tangled mesquite brush. To the west, across the Rio Grande, lies Mexico, to the east the cloud-hung Gulf. Spanish is the country's common tongue; the greater part of its people are poor, underpaid Mexican-Americans. For more than a half-century, southeast Texas has been the Land of Parr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: The Land of Parr | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Divorced. Johnnie Ray, 27, sobbing crooner-composer (The Little White Cloud That Cried); by Marilyn Morrison Ray, 23, daughter of a Hollywood nightclub owner; after 19 months of marriage, a year's separation; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...bleak Idaho desert, a wayfaring man, if wayfarers were permitted, might stumble on what looks like a scene of mis placed industrialism. A great cloud of steam rises from a pond of hot water, and near by stands a forbidding building of blank-walled concrete. It looks like a powerhouse, but no smoke comes from the six short stacks sticking out of its roof (they are emergency ventilators). The building, nevertheless, is a powerhouse-the first nuclear powerhouse of the Atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Man in Tempo 3 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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