Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clouds & Sparks. The attractions are obvious enough. Heroin produces a drowsy, drifting effect; LSD contorts and sometimes expands the mind. Methedrine, which is a harmless stimulant when taken orally in small doses, turns into a kind of mega-pep dose when it is concentrated and injected. It acts on the central nervous system in such a way as to give what the three medical researchers, who have studied addicts at the California Rehabilitation Center at Corona, describe as a "sudden generalized, overwhelming, pleasureful feeling." With somewhat more enthusiasm, a female speeder says that "it fills you inside, like this churning...
Search planes had logged 593 hours in 351 sorties, probing an almost constant cloud cover for the little grey plane. Three ground teams had been unable to find the wreckage, and the search was called off after two weeks. "We figured there was no possibility of human life involved," said Air Force Major Robert Hillier, who directed the search. Nonetheless, the eldest of Oien's three sons, Alvin Jr., 32, an airline copilot from Westlake, Texas, stayed in Redding 107 days, scanned the snow from the air every time the weather broke...
Meteorologists have long tried to make rain and break up hailstorms by seeding clouds with silver iodide or lead iodide. Drifting upward from generators on the ground or fed into the clouds from aircraft, the particles become nuclei around which tiny water droplets can cluster to form larger drops and, eventually, hailstones. If enough nuclei are available, according to theory, they compete so vigorously for the moisture in the cloud that none of the hailstones has a chance to become very large...
...Splintering. But the theory rarely worked in practice. Before a potential hail cloud could be identified and seeded, its hailstones had already grown large enough to cause damage. The Soviet solution was to use radar to identify the cloud as soon as it began to grow hailstones and deliver the iodides to it within three minutes...
...company finks," fast-living Jackhammer John, everyone traveling a hard road, but one that provided hope, blooming with all the gladness of his folk anthem, This Land Is Your Land. The gaunt Depression minstrel, with dried-grass hair and a reedy voice, spun off the Oklahoma plains like a cloud of the "dusty old dust" in his ballads to roam the nation singing in transient camps and saloons. His best stanzas staked the folk boom of the '60s, but by then their author was a wasted invalid, "drifting along" his last road in a hospital...