Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Negro columns came within 100 yards, a state police officer ordered the troopers to put on their gas masks. At 25 yards, the Negroes halted. State Police Major John Cloud barked through a bullhorn: "Turn around and go back to your church! You will not be allowed to march any further! You've got two minutes to disperse...
...minutes ticked by as the masked troopers stood in stony suspension, feet spread, arms down, holding their clubs at both ends. The Negroes stared at them somberly. Then Major Cloud gave the order: "Troopers-forward!" The patrolmen moved in a solid wall, pushing back the Negroes. The marchers in front began to stumble and fall, and a few troopers tripped...
...they had. Confronted by the police barrier, King stopped the procession as planned. Troop Major John Cloud raised his bullhorn and said: "I ask you to stop this march. You will not continue-you are ordered to stop and stand where you are." King asked Cloud if it was all right to "have some of the great religious leaders of our nation lead us in prayer." When permission was granted, King motioned to his longtime friend, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. As hundreds in the parade knelt in the sunlight, Abernathy intoned: "We come to present our bodies as a living...
...Third, the exemplary working relations between the Department of Correction and the resources of the state--government agencies, universities, and industry--are in serious jeopardy. McGrath was widely respected. The new commissioner is coming in under a cloud, and it remains to be seen what type of cooperation outside sources will offer...
...such problems can be relegated to the past. Last week at the Army's Camp Bullis, near San Antonio, medics demonstrated a portable, air-conditioned hospital-aseptic operating room and all. Under a miniature mushroom cloud that signified a theoretical A-bomb attack, while scores of "casualties" splashed with blood-red paint waited for treatment, the 20-bed unit was made ready within half an hour...