Word: clouding
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...going to bring a cloud with him to Cambridge Street and the rest of us are going to have to sit under it," says...
...appears that despite a variety of appeals to morality, reason and institutional self-interest, the President of the University does indeed intend to appoint Arnold Harberger. Harberger tells us that he will not come to Harvard "under a cloud." We write to urge every student, faculty member, and other employees of the University who have any decency and self-respect to help turn the cloud into a full scale thunderstorm...
...sure I love it," a woman says I in the petulant monotone of the Total Shopper, her eyes two emerald-rimmed pinpoints inside a huge cloud of cherry fox. She is definitely post-mink. Her personality calls for skunk, or perhaps tree sloth (to match her elaborate false fingernails), but she settles on a coat with pelts worked in next year's pattern, a sort of scallop effect resembling a Queen Anne façade. In case she ever sets foot outdoors, she buys a coyote ski jacket. She seems sorry not to have spent more than...
...ship in distress off the coast of Senegal in northwest Africa. The Salem, a 214,000-ton supertanker, registered in Liberia, was listing and dead in the water. By radio contact with the tanker, Trident learned that a series of mysterious explosions was responsible for the disaster; indeed, a cloud of orange smoke billowed from the tanker's deck. By 11:30 the disabled ship's Greek-born captain, Dimitrios Georgoulis, and his 22 crewmen, most, of them Tunisians, had pulled away in two lifeboats, their luggage neatly stowed. Six minutes later the tanker's stern lifted...
...points to explicit orders he issued against such practices. No one has clearly proved that Miller knew or took part in the payments. However, the evidence for a pattern of improper conduct that would have been hard to hide from Textron's top manager is strong--strong enough to cloud the office of Secretary of the Treasury with the kind of doubt last raised there by the tenure of John Connally...