Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a few thousand yards. Carrying 136 gallons of gasoline and burning a little less than a gallon a mile, the bomb has a top range of 150 miles. It can be set to fly at anywhere between 2,000 and 5,000 feet, thus taking advantage of any cloud cover available. Three gyroscopes, driven by bottles of compressed air and assisted by a magnetic compass in the nose (see cut), keep the bomb on its course. A small windmill in the nose regulates the range. Operating a counter as it turns, the wind mill acts as a timing device...
Along a dirt road through the bare Bulgarian hills, their columns wound for endless miles. The troops traveled in horse or ox-drawn carts or on foot, shuffling through the powder-fine white dust which rose in a cloud beneath the hot September sun and settled like snow when they had passed...
...Paris last week the name of Maillol was under a cloud. The aged sculptor had exhibited his work to Germans during the occupation. The huge Autumn Salon, which opened during the week, had sent him no invitation to contribute. Aristide Maillol had never followed public events or cared about politics. He refused even to discuss the war. He merely worked on in his Banyuls house, and when plaster became scarce he sent his son to ask the neighborhood dentists for more. In leisure moments, the old man listened to music. Few modern artists have evoked such critical acclaim. Wrote Britain...
...Stockholm's Aftontidningen (Evening News) reported details: there were more casualties from the gas than from the bombs. A gas alarm was sounded in Germany for the first time. Darmstadt's population was told that Americans had dropped gas bombs. Several days later, when a thick sulphurous cloud still hovered over the city, the Germans had to retract this story...
...wartime cloud, no bigger than a woman's hand, which hung over the U.S. campus, hung over the future of the professions too. Women's hands were turning to many campus skills. More of them were working in laboratories than ever before. They were guiding more tracing pens over engineers' drawing boards. At Iowa State College the newspaper had its first woman editor. At Knox College ("Old Siwash") the petticoat rule of student publications, which began last year, continued...