Word: clouding
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...amplify the fission chain reaction. Altogether they unleash around 80 kilotons of atomic power, six times as powerful as the Fat Boy dropped on Hiroshima. The ground shakes sharply beneath the village of Khetolai, cracking houses and crashing plates to the floor. Eyewitnesses see a 325-ft.-high dust cloud "blossom like a lotus flower" high...
...graduate student's discovery that a nebulous cloud of dust several trillion miles wide is shaped like a disk may give scientists clues as to how the earth was formed...
...he/she might forget today's government warning that TV stations could be gagged for reporting negatively on forest-fire smoke. Schools and airports may be closed and visibility reduced to 165 feet, but Information Minister Mohammed Rahmat has expressly forbidden the use of the word "haze" to describe the cloud. Malaysian scribes who turn to their Microsoft Word thesaurus for help will find the most apposite alternative for "haze" is one Minister Rahmat should recognize: befuddlement...
Abusive partners do everything in their powerto prevent financial independence, says Cloud. Theabusive partner might beat a victim so badly thatthe bruises become too embarrassing to show inpublic. Others verbally harass victims so thattheir self-confidence is destroyed...
...this overwhelming visual imagery cloud the musical promise of the songs Unwound chose to play from their Kill Rock Stars arsenal. At first, the music suffered from its surface awkwardness and appeared to have no direction, no substance, no reason. But Unwound wouldn't let you leave the room without closing up the gaps in the musical context. A dissonant run-on melody may have dragged out interminably and lost your attention or the grinding repetitiveness of a discordant thrash tune could have sent your mind a flitter, but Unwound always successfully brought the listener back into their sonically disturbing...