Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard system lies in the phrases "contain defense" and "position responsibilities." The first describes the general philosophy of Head Coach John Yovicsin and long-time assistant Jim Lentz. The theory is simple: give up short yardage but prevent the long gain. It is the "three yards and a cloud of dust" school in reverse. As long as they give up no more than four yards a play the defenders are dong their job. Statistics show that the best teams rarely can run more than 14 plays in succession without a mistake, and poorer teams less. So Harvard is willing...
...knees as he struggles down the slope. Suddenly, from high above, comes a familiar, chilling whine. "Incoming!" someone yells, and the leatherneck flattens himself in the mud. The artillery shell bursts 50 yards from him, gouging out a small crater through the slime. A breeze wafts away the cloud of smoke and detritus, the rifleman listens for a moment and then stands up. "Man!" he exclaims, scraping mud from his caked body. "This just must be the worst place in the world...
...formed by extensive lava flow. Such flow, they say, could emerge only from a lunar interior that was-and could still be-hot and molten. The earthlike characteristics of the lunar surface also support the theory that the moon and earth were part of the same pre-planetary dust cloud when the solar system was young, but later split to go their separate ways...
...pidgeons in such numbers we see fly That like a cloud they do make dark the sky; And in such multitudes are sometimes found, As that they cover both the trees and ground: He that advances near with one good shot, May kill enough to fill both spit...
...puddles from a simulated April Showers, or droppings from camels in the Nativity pageant, or oil slick from a fleet of autos used to ferry the chorus onstage, the girls are lucky to land on their toes and not their backsides. On one occasion a Rockette slipped in a cloud of steam hissing up through holes in the stage, plummeted into the orchestra pit and squashed a violinist...