Word: clouding
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What a difference a year makes. In 1986 memories of brutal hijackings were painfully fresh, and the headlines were filled with reports of a radioactive cloud drifting westward over Europe from the damaged Soviet nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. Speculation abounded that Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi might take bloody revenge for the U.S. bombing of Tripoli on American tourists abroad. No wonder Americans looked closer to home for vacation spots. One year later, as fears about safety in Europe have faded, Americans are grabbing their passports, packing their guidebooks and crossing the Atlantic again in huge waves. Tour operators, airlines, hotels...
Little relief is in sight for the exhausted residents of the northeastern Heilongjiang province. Light rain and snow, some of it natural, some induced through cloud-seeding techniques, failed last week to quell the blaze. While the construction of firebreaks covering more than 600 miles helped, a 14-mile chain of fires farther west continued to burn out of control. Chinese officials warned that strong winds could fan the embers in smoldering areas. Conceded a gloomy forest ministry report: "The prospect is by no means optimistic...
...most, however, leaving office under a cloud shadows all their days. Deaver has seen his staff of 18 wither to a secretary, a bookkeeper and an aide. He has shuttered his glossy offices in Washington and put his fancy furniture in storage...
...thousand saw I at a glance,/ Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance." That was in 1804, when Poet William Wordsworth effused over daffodils in his poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." The daffodil fields near Wordsworth's home have since been thinned by hungry sheep and marauding tourists. Now Britain's National Trust is considering planting hundreds of bulbs to restore the fields to their daffodil-rich condition...
...trident, they now wear a prominent "S" on their caps. With all of the rumors that the Mariners may move out of the Kingdome, it is probably a good idea to wear an "S." Perhaps the team can move to Saginaw or Spartanburg or Sarasota or St. Cloud to save money on new uniforms...