Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone cheers. The crowd goes wild. The cloud of tobacco smoke eddies and swirls with the commotion. Another of the platform heroes steps forward. "Now, I don't want to speak ill of the dead," be begins. Silence. "So I won't say anything against Bacon." Again silence. He waits. Number 1 of the twin-bellies laughs uproariously. The crowd laughs. The speaker has said something fanny. More humor. The crowd laughs some more. The band plays "My Wild Irish Rose...
...ends just now are under a slight cloud for not getting down the field a bit faster when the Crusaders were on the receiving end of punts and for not being more of a nuisance to Pass-expert Hobin. The two starting ends, Shaun Kelly and Bob Knapp, managed to keep in the Crusaders' backfield a good bit of the time, but their understudies weren't quite as successful. Emile Dubiel is by long odds the most promising of the second-stringers, but an effective partner for him is much needed...
Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud formations shut out the sky and cloak the whole land in a tent that had the earth for its floor. Absent is the late pale green of heaven, the distant rims of the world are suffused into the gathering twilight. The land is barren and fruitless except for the smiling champaigns of flowers blotched intermittently throughout all the wastes. There is no wind, or breath of air, or life along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits...
...another fragment thudded into the ground a scant 100 ft. away. One worker hastened to the spot, found the meteorite too hot to handle. A man near Newburyport saw a fireball with a 15 ft. trail splash into the ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape Cod a cloud of smoke which obscured the sun was reported. Elsewhere at least six other meteorites were declared to have fallen in the water or on land. Only meteorite recovered was the Salisbury Beach fragment. When cool enough to pick up it was found to be a pitted, fused, 1-lb. mass...
...paced the enormous cloud, almost...