Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once an aspirant to a career in journalism, knows how to organize good political reporting. Before the precinct caucuses in Texas last May, his information convinced him that the Eisenhower forces would have a majority, but the Taft forces would probably bolt and hold rump sessions. Before the Texas cloud was even sighted on the national political scene, Brownell had decided that Texas was the crucial G.O.P. state, and had flown there to map his strategy. He called the signals on the Texas battle, and it proved to be the beginning of the Eisenhower breakthrough...
...after abolishing spring practice one year, they suddenly arouse it the next with attendant financial, personnel, and moral problems. After some years, the question of whether the game, the players and the spectators benefit from either method ought to be clear. At present, it is nothing more than a cloud of assumptions and unproved arguments...
...Wilhelm School in Shanghai, where his father served as consul general, the missionary school at Chefoo, the public schools of Berkeley, Calif., the Thacher School at Ojai, Calif.-he was the delight and despair of his teachers. A shy, skinny boy in knee pants, he was wrapped in a cloud of make believe; his greatest pleasure was to dress his sisters up in cheesecloth and get them to act one of his own one-act plays...
Also during our time that notable homme du monde, Lucius Beebe arrived in a cloud of dust, straight from the Dean's Office is New Haven and settled down cheerfully as a CRIMSON staff writer. The results were far too numerous to mention. Among them a proposal (greatly applauded at the time) to trade President Lowell and three full professors for a good running backfield, and a shattering expose of Kate Douglas Wiggin for plagiarism. William I. Nichols '26 (Editor--This Week Magazine...
...days later, while Richards and Walker were camped at the foot of the cone, the volcano blew its top. A vast cloud of black smoke billowed out of the crater, almost from the spot where they had waded in the lava dust. It rose to a great height; then its steam condensed and fell as a scalding deluge of muddy rain. Richards and Walker escaped in a skiff, rowing madly, and took refuge on a tuna boat...