Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yearning for the misty past to combat what seemed like an unbearably rainy future. Fearful that a Denver "carnival of harmony" would get washed out, the S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. went into district court and asked that Dr. Irving P. ("The Rainmaker") Krick be forced to turn off his baleful ring of cloud-seeding machines surrounding the city...
Recipients are Nathan Kravetz, vice principal at the Cathay Center School in Los Angeles; David B. Muirhead, instructor at St. Cloud State Teachers College, Minnesota; Futrelle L. Temple, principal of the Sylacauga, Ala., high school; and Alvin Warren, educationist with the United States Indian Service in Albuquerque...
Soon a Polish army craft was on the fugitive's tail. By zigzagging through a cloud bank over the Baltic, the four managed to elude it, despite their slow speed (75 m.p.h.). They navigated by compass, without...
...stages bare, cut down on all warlike gear save for a few essential spears. Siegfried's funeral pyre was left to the imagination. In Götterdämmerung, nobody got to see Valhalla burn: there was only a red glow in the sky, no sign of a cloud-borne castle...
This would be annoying enough to Harry Truman. But what fixed the fascinated gaze of political observers was a cloud on the political horizon no bigger than the hand of little Jacob Arvey, Illinois Democratic boss. Appearing on a TV program with Douglas, Arvey dutifully stated that the Illinois delegation at the National Convention would support Mr. Truman if he chose to run. If not, said Arvey, "there are a great many people who . . . look on Senator Douglas as a presidential candidate." When Douglas once more disavowed any such ambitions, Arvey mentioned his liking for Ike Eisenhower, whom Arvey backed...