Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...India the general unrest due to the War, that exists all over the world, the cost of living is very high, and strikes are frequent. Conditions are right for the people to nurse the ideas of race-hatred and revolt that the Extremists are spreading broadcast. If the cloud passes over, India will be well on her way to prosperous, peaceful, self-government: if the storm breaks it will shatter England's plans and put the idea of an India under her own government out of mind as impossible for many decades to come...
...door with a huge grin. And there is Bid, the heavy hired girl. And Ma Pratt. And Pa Pratt. And we all pull up chairs together. "Pitch in, everybody. . . . It looks richer than burnt gold, and it tastes like maple honey boiled on the sunside of a cloud with cocoanuts disolved...
...smoke and resort to plebiscites. Suppose smoke, fire and ashes do get into non-smokers' eyes? Where there is smoke there must naturally be fire, cinders, grit, stains on the table cloth, pipe cleaners on the piano, matches in the bread box, and ashes everywhere. They are the cloud of glory the smoker trails after him. They are the outer and visible signs of an inner peace beyond description...
...under way against the Valparaiso eleven Saturday, but when it once got going in the second half, the Westerners could offer little resistance to the Crimson steam roller. The "team of mystery" did not prove a hard nut for the Fisherites to crack, after they had once penetrated the cloud of secrecy which surrounded the team. During the first half of the game, the Crimson players seemed to be worried by the uncertainty of what they were up against--the interference was ragged, the linesmen charged feebly, and the backs ran listlessly, often stopping up before they were tackled...
...months. The stories of cattle-running outrage, and murder in Ireland may not all be true some of them, as the Irish leaders claim, may have been inspired by sources hostile to Ireland's freedom. But it is an ancient proverb that where there is such a prodigious cloud of smoke, there is sure to be a certain amount of fire. The reports from Ireland do not seem to indicate that the Irish people are proceeding by orderly means toward their goal. And so long as the present conditions continue, the Irish cause in this country is bound to suffer...