Word: cloudlessness
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Westward from the man on the hospital terrace swept the Rockies, flecked with the gold of the cottonwoods and aspens, beneath cloudless autumn skies. To the northwest stood Longs Peak, 14,255 ft., and to the southwest Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft., their shoulders cloaked with snow; on the way out to the horizon, amid intervening tiers and hollows, lay places like Clear Creek, where Colorado's first important gold strike was made in 1859. ("Panned out eight treaty cups of dirt," the prospector said, "and found nothing but fine colors...
...school's motto is no dried-up, impersonate Latin word like "Veritas," but a quotation from Byron: "She walks in beauty like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies: and all that's best of light and dark, meet in the aspect of her eyes," which, as we are told, "is symbolic of the Academic Moderne graduate...
...hung in a cloudless sky over England's Lake District. A failing breeze made halfhearted ripples on the sleek surface of Ullswater. Then, just before noon, the word came: "Conditions favorable.'' Donald Campbell, 34, quit his chess game and raced to the lakeside boathouse. where his jet-propelled Bluebird floated like a great, shiny bullet on twin pontoons. If luck rode with him and the Bluebird held together, Don Campbell was on his way to get back the speed record once held by his father, the late Sir Malcolm Campbell (141.74 m.p.h...
...horizon was not cloudless. Industry planned to spend about 5% less ($20.7 billion) on new plants and equipment than in 1954, largely because of a 40% spending cut by automakers from the record $1.3 billion new-model outlay in 1954. Some industries, e.g., textiles and coal, were still in trouble. The farm problem was still tremendous. Though Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson won a notable victory in his fight for flexible supports-and farmers, like investors, seemed willing once again to take a chance-the surplus commodities held by the Government totaled $6.6 billion at year...
...strolled out to a wisteria-covered arbor. Arthur Dean looked up at the cloudless sky and said: "Mr. President, make it rain." "You know that's impossible, Mr. Dean," Rhee answered. "Only the laws of the universe can make it rain." Dean smiled and said: "The exchange rate of the hwan is the same thing. Only the laws of economics can keep it steady...