Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hole up front was Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, a big, impassive, 26-year-old Indian from Friendship, Wis. and Red Cloud did not hesitate. Half rising, he shouted an alarm, and then began loosing furious bursts from his automatic rifle into the running Chinese soldiers...
Mitchell Red Cloud had become a fighting man early in life-almost as early as if he had lived when his Sioux ancestors were warring on the Great Plains. He had left high school, before Pearl Harbor, to join up with the Marines and win his expert rifleman's badge, had served at Midway Island, through the thickest of the struggle on Guadalcanal, and in many a mission with Carlson's Raiders. He had weighed 195 Ibs. when he joined the Marines, only 115 when he was mustered out. But when the Korean war began Mitchell Red Cloud...
...that turned out to be the 19th's good luck. The Chinese charge faltered. Then an enemy burp gun chattered. Mitchell Red Cloud was knocked flat, badly wounded. He pulled himself weakly erect, got one arm around a tree, clung there and went on firing. Then he fell again-dead. But Red Cloud's last stand had given the 19th the time it needed; the company fought its way to safety with its wounded...
...covey of psychiatrists clustered in Oklahoma City federal court one day last week to do a job of head-candling on Missouri's droop-eyed killer, Billy Cook. But their numbers only seemed to cloud the issue at hand-whether Billy, who killed six people in cold blood on a transcontinental murder spree (TIME, Jan. 22), was sane enough to stand trial for his crimes. Three said he was, four said he was not. Confronted with such guidance, Federal Judge Stephen Chandler decided next day that Cook was sane enough to plead guilty but not sane enough...
...Mexico's Senator Clinton P. Anderson, sponsor of one of the bills, warned that large, independent and unregulated attempts at cloud-seeding "might produce droughts all over one part of the country, floods all over another, and throw our defense organization more out of kilter than five atomic bombs...