Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Airline Pilot Russell Bidulph, flying a C-47 from Port Moresby to Lae, looked down on Lamington. Said Bidulph later: "It seemed to cough, and in an instant there was a Bikini-like cloud above it." In a single blast the whole northern side of the peak had blown up. The black cloud, "full of streaks of red lightning," boiled up to 50,000 feet, mushroomed 100 miles wide. Not molten lava, but pumice dust and hot scoria (like clinkers from a furnace) flew out of the crater, making the earth for miles around too hot to live...
...level parts of the moon, for instance, are covered by a three-inch layer of dust tossed out of meteorite craters. Last year a cloud of yellow dust was seen for a few hours on Mars by Tsuneo Saheki. Struve thinks it was probably stirred up by a meteorite striking through the thin Martian atmosphere and shattering Martian rock...
...Faith Baldwin Theater of Romance (alternate Sats. 11 a.m., ABC) hopes to mirror the rosy view of U.S. life & love that has enchanted the Baldwin millions. The first show opened with harp strings, cloud formations and a lyric hymn to Maidenform ("The dream of a bra . . . the largest-selling brassiere in the world!"), illustrated with sexy shots of bra-girls skiing, stretching, or just standing around in half-dressed hauteur...
...Technology. His mobiles were painted tin and wire contraptions that jiggled and joggled. Some reared nervously from the floor; others hung jittering from the ceiling. One, near the door, featured a padded drumstick that bonged a brass gong in the occasional breeze. Another, The Blizzard of dangled a cloud of white discs from what looked like black coat hangers...
Volkskammer. The Brussels meeting was held under a cloud of new threats from Russia. Three days before the meeting opened, the Kremlin had called in the French and British ambassadors, handed them similar notes. Said the one to France: Russia would not "accept" the rearming of West Germany planned by the Atlantic pact powers. Furthermore, France was "responsible" for undermining the six-year-old Franco-Soviet non-aggression pact. Meanwhile, the Communist German East zone Volkskammer (Parliament) unanimously decreed penalties up to death by beheading for all Germans-West as well as East zone-who supported German rearming...