Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the cloud of censorship, the reassurances of British officialdom, the casual gibes of high hearted correspondents and the absurdity of German propaganda claims, the robot bomb attack on southern England showed plain signs that it might grow from a major nuisance into a minor menace...
...week Allied planes cruised over Germany, meeting only moderate air resistance. On Wednesday 2,000 attackers met almost no resistance at all, and a U.S. air task force hit Brunswick through heavy cloud cover without losing a bomber...
Telekinesis and Pseudopods. At 20, Daniel Home was the U.S.'s star medium. He had only to enter a room for the furniture to quiver expectantly. "Pillars of cloud appeared in doorways and spirit forms lounged near windows ... if [the audience] glanced over their shoulders, they might catch an ottoman in the act of pouncing. . . . Pianos playfully wedged old ladies against the walls . . . hassocks stood up and tapped out messages [once the spirits ordered beer for Mr. Home] . . . folding doors swung unnervingly open and shut." To his brilliant repertory of telekinesis (the "science" of moving ob jects without touching...
...Flying Fortress was on instruments in dense cloud over Italy. Tail Gunner James A. Raley, on his thirteenth mission, heard the navigator call out the altitude -19,500 feet. Then the plane jolted, seemed to stop. The intercom went out. Sergeant Raley, hurled into one of the air war's strangest adventures, figured in his lonely section that his plane had collided with another Fortress...
...assistant curate (at ?20 a year), Cyril Garbett went to the combined vicarage of Portsmouth and Southsea, which, under the name of Portsea, was the biggest vicarage in England. The shy, reserved youth had exchanged the quiet of the cloud-shadowed chalk downs for some of the toughest waterfront slums in Britain. As quietly and systematically as he had dug in the vicarage garden, young Cyril Garbett dug into the causes of slums and poverty, turned up the disturbing idea that no matter how much help the churches' spiritual program and social services may give, the roots of most...