Word: cloudlessly
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...dawn when Barrow and I joined the troop movement; the cruelty of the heat and cloudless skies was already unbear able. The whole Sixty-Second Army was on foot. As far as you could see, strung over the horizon through rice paddies, in single file along the ruined rail bed, crawling through ditches on the devastated highway, were single files of Chinese troops...
...life Jack Curtin, 59, had never felt the need to see the non-Australian world. Years ago, Vance Marshall, an Australian laborite now living in London, visited Jack in Perth. "I'm on my way to England," Marshall said. Curtin looked out the window, at the endless, cloudless western sky. "Isn't there room enough in Australia?" he finally asked. "Not for me," 'retorted Marshall. "Australia's in the back wash. It's back of beyond of even the fringe of things that matter. I want to be where history is written...
...weather. But Astrophysicist Abbot has been watching solar radiation with heliotrope devotion for 49 years. Twenty-five years ago he began to take daily recordings of solar heat. The Smithsonian set up delicate measuring instruments on three mountaintops in desert areas which averaged 300 cloudless days a year-Table Mountain, Calif., Burro Mountain, N. Mex. and Mt. Montezuma, Chile...
...bombers came on, 226 of them, Fortresses, Liberators, Mitchells and Marauders, roaming the cloudless sky undisturbed, dropping their bombs with exquisite exactness. Between the waves of bombers the artillery Long' Toms and 240-mm. howitzers pumped shells up the hill. The mountain seemed to jump and quiver, like a great bear twitching in sleep. Observers counted 200 men, some allegedly in uniform, scurrying out of the devastated monastery. As the next-to-last wave of 20 Marauders dropped a cluster smack on the abbey, an American soldier yelled: "Touchdown...
...first I knew that things were beginning to happen was when the air-raid sirens blew before daylight Nov. 8. I got up, looked out of the window, and saw nothing but a clear, cloudless sky, with no sound of planes or antiaircraft. So I concluded that it was a false alarm, and went back to bed. I dozed off, but came to with the sound of troops running through the streets, so I tumbled out to have another look; and then realized for the first time that there was really something up. It was then light enough...