Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hope seemed chiefly propped up by secret weapons still to be revealed. There was a report of a fiery cloud, a secret gas to be released from planes. As it sank to the ground, other planes would pour incendiary bullets into the mass, turning it into a vast flaming blanket. Said the Vienna edition of the Volkischer Beobach-ter: "Our intention is to surprise the enemy with something absolutely new. Weeks or months may pass before the moment comes. These will be the hardest period of the war for us." Said 55 Writer Joachim Fernau: "Within six months all Germans...
...Argentine Historian Leopoldo Lugones on onetime President and historian Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ("the Argentine Jefferson"): "Danger was his habit and wrath his beauty; his dimensions became those of a deity, cleaving the air like lightning, riding the tempest with a cloud at his belt and a thunderbolt on his shoulder...
...unhappy, feckless af fair. Almost a year after Italy's surrender, little more than a month after the ousting of Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's Government had neither power nor responsibility. It could do little without Allied permission. It administered in name, under the cloud of defeat, under the weight of the Allies' unpublished armistice...
Next day, coming off an escort job near Evreux, Gabby spotted three low-flying Germans, prodded one of them into a steep, twisting climb, chased him into a cloud and out again, shot him down in flames. Thus, with 28 victims, Colonel Gabreski became-for a while, at least...
Outstanding was September 13, 1918, Saint Mihiel, by 54-year-old Kerr Eby, now painting for the Marines. It was a pencil drawing of weary, bent men on the march under a sky filled with a ponderous black cloud. Artist Eby says that the cloud hung in the sky for three days; the Germans thought it was an omen...