Word: clouding
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...think it went really well," Aaron reports. He is about to launch into a full-scale retelling, but by the look in our eyes, it's clear that we're not interested. We head back out onto the street. The sun is high in the sky and the cloud cover has dispersed. We squint and stumble around the corner...
Huling lined a ball off the pitcher's mound, and when the rebound ricocheted into short center field, he dug hard around first and motored for second while the Bulldog outfield looked at the ball like an arrival from another planet. He arrived in a cloud of dust, well ahead of the dilatory throw...
...Huling lined a ball off the pitcher's mound, and when the rebound ricocheted into short center field, he dug hard around first and motored for second while the Bulldog outfield looked at the ball like an arrival from another planet. He arrived in a cloud of dust, well ahead of the dilatory throw...
...strikes, NATO was plagued by bad luck. Only about half the bombing sorties actually dropped ordnance on targets. Some planes were socked in by bad weather; other pilots couldn't eyeball their prey--NATO rules required visual identification of a target to prevent civilian casualties--through the thick cloud cover, and returned to base with bomb bays still loaded. "Everybody is surprised," says a White House aide, "that we're not as far along as we wanted...
After a year, he signed on as a graduate student at Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin and embarked on the work that would one day make him famous: studying faint, hazy blobs of light called nebulae (from the Latin word for cloud) that are visible through even a modest telescope...