Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Molecule. At 23, Albert did a brilliant paper on something called "non-typical Wurmer-Klaus reactions" and was invited to join a chemistry-research department at Oxford. There he went to work for F. R. Dibdin, a revered character who wandered around in a cloud of pipesmoke and portentous cliches, occasionally avoiding difficult questions by sidling off to the lavatory. Scientist Albert told his diary: "Dr. Dibdin ... is a wonderfully inspired leader ... He will give Woods the discipline he needs...
...campaigning is rough. Johannesburg's Afrikaans Nationalist newspaper Die Transvaler published a cartoon of a panga knife labeled "Mau Mau" piercing a black cloud and hanging over a white family, with a caption: "Vote Nationalist to avert this." Brigadier C. I. Rademeyer, head of South Africa's Criminal Investigation Department, quietly made it known that up to ten plainclothesmen were attending all political rallies, mixing with the crowds. Since the cops were assumed to be progovernment, United Party members were alarmed. Asked the Rand Daily Mail: "Are they spies?" Nationalist hoodlums tried to break up United Party rallies...
...Duxford R.A.F. field near Cambridge, the R.A.F. brass gathered to show off Britain's jet air power. Noting cloud formations (at 1,200 ft.) in the sky, Tito suggested that the demonstration be canceled, but his hosts insisted. Minutes later two Meteor Mark 8s collided during an acrobatic show and crashed, killing both pilots, while Tito looked on in horror. (On his way to England, four other Britons had been killed during a 60-plane "flyover" staged at Gibraltar.) Tito, visibly upset, asked the British to cancel the rest of the show. They refused. But before it was over...
...radioactive cloud drifted eastward. A thick, dense column of dust reached into the sky behind it; below, a flat lake dust covered vast acres of desert. An hour passed before Army helicopters brought surprisingly chipper G.I.s from the trenches. Only two miles from Ground Zero, heat and light had passed over them as they crouched face down. The grey dust cloud they saw later, they were told was not dangerously radioactive. They had learned the lesson that atom bombs may spare careful soldiers who keep their distance and are well...
...dust cloud with its waning radio activity drifted harmlessly eastward ,but the ruins left behind at Yucca Flat impressed some observers more than others. For an area nearly a mile and a half long and almost as wide, the desert had been made dangerous with radioactivity. Hopefully, FCDA men announced that the bomb shelters in the cellar of House Two would have saved real inhabitants. Perhaps said dubious AEC officials, but it would be helpful to remember a few facts. The "Diagnostic Device" was less powerful than the primitive A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It probably packed the punch...