Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field. Riding with its two hands-off pilots were two volunteers: a male and a female correspondent. The landing was rough, close to a crackup, but the Air Forces considered the test successful. On Crossroads Day, it announced, it would fly four unmanned B-17s into the radioactive cloud above the atomic explosion, attempt to collect great bagsful of cloud matter. All the "drones" were considered expendable, for the cloud's effect upon planes was still unknown...
...great day itself will be chosen by Colonel B. G. Holzman, a meteorologist. For proper observation, there should be no overcast. But the Colonel's greatest worry will be the mighty cloud of radioactive gases and particles which will rise like a thunderhead above the explosion. From it may fall a deadly sprinkle, and the Colonel's job is to see that it falls on empty ocean...
...USED AN UNFORTUNATE EXPRESSION WHEN YOU SAID [TIME, FEB. Il] ... THAT CARLTON COLE MAGEE BEAT THE HOMICIDE RAP. HIS TRIAL CLEARED HIM COMPLETELY AND NO CLOUD SHOULD BE SUGGESTED OR IMPLIED NOW WHEN HE CAN NO LONGER TALK BACK. CARL MAGEE WAS A COURAGEOUS CRUSADER FOR RIGHT...
...Peace to the shade of Crusader Magee, and to Reader Tingley. TIME summoned up no cloud...
...word statement he charged that the President's friends "resented keenly the fact. . . I told the truth." Ominously recalling the scandal of Teapot Dome, he stormed: "This kind of political pressure spiritually wrecked the Republican Party in the days of Secretary [Albert] Fall." He warned "of a cloud, now no bigger than a man's hand, that my . experience sees in the sky"- the cloud of political corruption...