Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mythology, essential to the twentieth-century American funeral rite has grown up--or rather has been built up step by step--to justify the peculiar customs surrounding the disposal of our dead... Gradually, almost imperceptibly, over the years the funeral men have constructed their own grotesque cloud-cuckooland where the trappings of Gracious Living are transformed, as in a nightmare, into the trappings of Gracious Dying... The emphasis is one the same desirable qualities that we have all been schooled to look for in our daily search for excellence: comfort, durability, beauty, craftsmanship." From THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH...
...Friday night crowd at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway was in a festive mood. In the grandstand, beer cans rattled and pari-mutuel machines beat a steady thunk, thunk, thunk. In the Cloud Casino, champagne corks popped and waiters served steaks. For some, it was just a night at the races. But most were drawn there by a fantasy of instant wealth...
...virtuous woman is perpetually threatened by a cloud no bigger than a man's hand...
...within the Administration? In the interval between Halaby's no and Bobby's yes, pretrial testimony had established that in guiding the United DC-8, FAA controllers at Idlewild departed from standard procedures. Those departures could hardly be said to have caused the collision, but they did cloud the question of the Government's responsibility...
...horizontally across the film. This type of radiation accompanies the largest flares. It may be followed almost immediately by a burst of high-energy particles which travel toward the earth at almost the speed of light. These powerful particles can cause terrestrial radio blackouts. These days later a shower cloud of particles may reach the earth and cause geomagnetic storms and aurorae...