Word: cloudlessly
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...over Mexico City, blue and cloudless since November, last week turned grey. Now & then a little rain fell, and the afternoon winds ceased to cloak the city with powdery dust from the fields outside. In many a village women got ready for the first family wash since the village brook dried up last fall. Men stuck out their tongues to taste the rain,'or stood watching it soak into the parched earth...
Breakers Ahead. The Times, founded by Printer John Walter in 1785 to help keep his printing presses busy, in 1884 was "a stately East Indiaman of a newspaper, sailing under a still almost cloudless Victorian sky." But the glass was dropping: circulation was down to a puny 48,000. The barnacle-crusted Times was hopelessly old-fashioned for an age of steam...
...high noon on May 10, 1940-the day Hitler's Panzer divisions began their drive toward France-from the cloudless sky over ancient Freiburg a thin drone insisted. The burghers were not alarmed. They glanced skyward, expecting to watch another Luftwaffe observation plane drift toward the French border ten miles to the west. Instead, they saw a formation of planes, sweeping in at great altitude from the north. Seconds later, the burghers and their women and children ran for cover, shrieking. Terror bombing of undefended cities on the western front had begun...
Measuring the Eye. In Army & Navy bombers, they made unprecedented clinical studies of a hurricane's doughnutlike anatomy. They took temperature readings and measured wind velocities (up to 150 m.p.h.). They even flew through the tempestuous outer wind-swirl into the doughnut's windless, cloudless central "eye" (TIME, Sept. 22). By radar, they found that the eye was 25 miles in diameter...
Above the green woods and fields of Maryland the sunny, early evening sky was cloudless and clear. From their DC-3, Civil Aeronautics Board inspectors watched Eastern Airlines' Miami-bound plane pass their slower craft and wing majestically down the airway to the south. The CABmen were flying back to Washington from LaGuardia Field after investigating the worst disaster in the history of U.S. civil aviation (see below). The plane that had just passed was doomed to figure in an even more horrible...