Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kitchen. "I was awfully hungry," Joe said later, "so I went back there to the kitchen. They put me at a little table near the sink. The dishwasher splashed soapy water on my food, and someone started to sweep the floor and made a dust cloud." Joe was terrified. He plunked down the price of his meal, dashed out through the front door, and ran without stopping all the mile and a half back to the college...
Bruce Munro accepted a cigarette and stretched back contentedly in one of the overstuffed armchairs in the Dillon Field House Lounge. He blew a cloud of smoke towards the follow with the camera who had just photographed the varsity soccer team and began reminiscing about the one really bright spot in the Harvard-Yale weekend, the booters' 3 to 2 overtime upset over the Elis...
Just off the Peruvian coastline, they were foodless, save for some beef. "I've sailed before, so the hurricane didn't worry me," says Arrow, "but I've never been really hungry. I was quite frightened." To make things worse a cloud layer, hovering off the Peruvian coast, put visibility at just about zero. Davis couldn't solve the food problem, but, being a competent navigator, he was not seriously handicapped by the lack of visibility. About 100 miles out, the engine sputtered; Davis investigated, and found that there was no diesel oil left. To op-operate the engine...
...altitude drama. But the picture's breathtaking aerial shots capture much of the excitement and exaltation of flight in dazzling imagery: long shots of sleek, gleaming jets climbing and diving in magnificent, vapor-trailed trajectory or hanging suspended in space among the high, pale palaces of slow cloud; head-on close-ups of test pilots in G-suits and goggles, framed in a halo of Plexiglas...
Birth of a Nation is a movie with a cloud over its head. Whenever anyone has tried to show it, an ominous thunder has been heard from those who, in the name of tolerance, will not tolerate its exhibition...