Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost. Of premature babies who weighed 4 Ibs. or less at birth, one out of every eight reared in hospital incubators was going blind. Suddenly, and for no apparent reason, the blood vessels of the retina would fan out in wild profusion. Fibrous tissue growing behind the lens would cloud the eyes and ruin the retina. Doctors were baffled. They could do little more than tag the disease with a name, retrolental fibroplasia (R.L.F...
...quiet, courtly Virginian of deep religious faith and independent character, the cloud was a vindication of a rather lonely fight-a vindication he was the last to want. When he heard the news about the Russian explosion of a "thermonuclear device," Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 57, new chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, informed the other four AECommissioners, and then started working day & night to speed the U.S.'s own thermonuclear bomb production program. Not much was said, but AEC was keenly aware of two fateful facts of U.S. history: 1) had it not been for Lewis Strauss...
Slicing through the cloud-mantled mountains and the coastal rain forests, through cactus-fenced pastures and corn-clad canyons, four major paved highways now march from the U.S. border to Mexico City. New roads, rebuilt railroads and oil pipelines now crisscross the countryside. Some sleepy towns of yesterday have become buzzing 20th century cities. Colonial Salamanca, seat of the government's big new oil refinery, looks like a Texas oil town by night, with its orange flares glowing over pipes and vents...
...finished, 14 hours later, Mrs. Jessel had collected more than $500-an average night's take for "the lady of love with the healing hands." When she was a girl of 16 in North Carolina, Healer Jessel says, Jesus appeared to her "standing on a soft, fleecy cloud." bade her: "Go and heal the sick." Mrs. Jessel has no medical training, employs no physical therapy. She simply passes her hands over the patient. Says she: "The medical people do the operating, the cutting, the diagnosing, but with me it's His work...
...short distance from the runway, a 240-watt searchlight circles slowly, its narrow beam arcing day and night across the base of low-lying clouds. Only 200 feet away, a parabolic mirror points overhead to gather the searchlight's reflected glow and focus it on a photoelectric cell. As the clouds rise or fall, reflections vary. In the radio shack, remote-reading indicators record the angle at which the searchlight beam bounces back. Measuring cloud height is then a matter of simple trigonometry...