Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a private audience with Pope John XXIII one December afternoon in 1960, the French Catholic philosopher Etienne Gilson touched on the subject of priestly celibacy. "The Pope's face became gloomy, darkened by a rising inner cloud," Gilson later reported. "Then the Pope added in a violent tone, almost a cry: 'For some of them it is martyrdom. Yes, a sort of martyrdom. It seems to me that sometimes I hear a sort of moan, as if many voices were asking the church for liberation from the burden. What can I do? Ecclesiastical celibacy...
...government is hurrying work on two new canals to bring in more than 1,350,000 tons of water a day from nearby rivers, expects the first to be finished next week. Meantime, Japanese Self-Defense Force planes carrying dry ice and water have pounced on every passing cloud, and on the shores of the Ogochi reservoir, a Shinto priest in the mask of a scarlet lion writhed through a ceremonial rain dance. Townsmen were warned not to expect miracles. "It will take two days for the message to get through to the dragon god," the priest explained...
Certainly, it is too early to establish odds on the election. The areas of Goldwater strength are selective and outside the big power centers, such as New York and Pennsylvania. Barry is still flying high on the cloud of post-convention momentum that buoys any newly anointed candidate. Lyndon Johnson has not yet begun to fight. And beyond this, Barry is riding on a wave of white backlash against the summer's civil rights violence that could rise or diminish between now and November. With all these areas of doubt, the political news last week was that so many...
...manner of ordinary men, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse started growing older at birth, 82 years ago. But unlike most he was able to stop the process in mid-adolescence. Wodehouse still lives in the same cloud-cuckoo land of titled old blighters, muscular viragoes and fluffy-minded bachelors that he first celebrated 67 books ago. In his 68th, he demonstrates that he has lost little of his zany zest for a world that once put Essayist John W. Aldridge in mind of "an incubator of oafdom." The oafs in Biffen's Millions are all after an obscure-ly willed fortune...
...dark cloud...