Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Streaking out of low cloud cover just seaward of Haiphong, the U.S. Air Force Voodoo flew smack into a sky full of flak. As his reconnaissance fighter belched flame from its starboard engine, Captain Norman Huggins, 36, of Sumter, S.C., knew his search for North Vietnamese SAM sites was over for the day. He saw a finger-shaped island below him, surrounded by a wrinkled sea studded with enemy junks. The only hope for survival lay in his yellow and black ejection handles. Whoosh went the canopy, pow went the 37-mm. cartridge under his seat, pop went the parachute...
There is one dark cloud left on the horizon, however. An amendment successfully affixed to the House-passed version of the bill provides that revenue from the sales tax be used only for welfare expenditures and the reduction of the tax rate, not for education...
...what comets consist of. For centuries they were objects of excitement and superstition, often feared as precursors of grave and cataclysmic events. Today some astronomers speculate that comets are the debris flung off by larger planets out beyond the earth. The most widely accepted theory holds that a vast cloud completely surrounds the solar system. According to Fred Whipple of the Smithsonian Observatory, about 4.6 billion years ago the cloud (a giant snowstorm") began to condense into separate bodies-"dirty snowballs" of dust and ices made up of methane, ammonia and water. Some of these bodies were captured...
...restyled that only the classic radiator grille, though lower and squarer, remains to recall the car's lineage. Rolls designers have chopped off 7 in. in length, 5 in. in height and 31 in. in width from the dimensions of the car's proud predecessor, the Silver Cloud. They have abandoned the old boxy profile in favor of a more streamlined look, redesigned the side slabs so that they extend in an unbroken line from front to rear...
Wallace reasons that the Republicans and Democrats may split the moderate vote and leave him as the conservatives' only champion. In fact the only cloud on Wallace's horizon is the prospect of stiff resistance on the gubernatorial succession issue from a small but determined minority in the state senate...