Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gloom hung heavy over all the western clubs, but the blackest cloud was over the once-mighty Cardinals (who had only managed to break even in 26 games). First Marty Marion and Al Schoendienst went on the injured list, then Pitcher Max Lanier went home for probable induction. At this point Mort Cooper, the Cards' No. 1 pitcher, walked out. He still wanted his paycheck boosted to $15,000 or else (TIME, April...
...life (The General; The Ship). The Hornblower series has made him one of the most popular adventure writers alive, ("I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," said Ernest Hemingway.) Readers of Commodore Hornblower will find it built on the same lines as its predecessors: its topmast in a cloud of fantastic thrills, its keel afloat in Royal Navy lore...
...track claimed many of our company 4 notables-purely for the purpose of watching. . . . Speaking of the track, diminutive Roland Sink ticked of a 4:25 mile over a mire-laden track to cloud James Rafferty, ex N. Y. U. sensation, and turn in the top performance of the day in that event. The win, a full five seconds under the best IC-4A time, gives NSCS one of the three top collegiate milers in the country...
...morning of May 4 an eerie blue-white light flashed across a cloud-heavy sky. Seconds later, a series of explosions and tremors shook houses and rattled windows in eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland. Thousands of people, startled awake, flooded police stations and newspaper offices with phone calls. What had happened? No one knew, at first...
Warplanes roamed the skies, found holes in the cloud banks to dive on milling Nazi columns and add the finishing touches to the job. A winter and spring of ceaseless air attack had left the Germans weak, immobile, unable either to fight or get away...