Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt in history to make rain artificially may be in the offing. From Capetown last week came word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...
...Columbus, Ohio, Governor John W. Bricker bided his time. His friends, in Indianapolis and elsewhere, wanted to get his Presidential campaign rolling, but the good Governor waited for a popular mandate. He sat modestly expecting the lightning, while friends and observers could see hardly a cloud...
...built Douglas transport was perilously close to the German fighter bases on the northern tip of Jutland. Out of a cloud, like a falcon striking at a swan, came a Nazi pursuit ship, the machine-gun muzzles along its black wings blinking like baleful orange-red eyes. The Swedish pilot sobbed a prayer or a curse, threw the wheel over, kicked his rudder pedals, fought to lose altitude and get down near the water without pulling the wings off. The Nazi pilot took his time, turned smoothly to follow the clumsy transport's evasive action, made another pass...
...second prize of $700 went to 40-year-old Robert Gwathmey, art teacher at Manhattan's Cooper Union, for a postery agricultural study called Hoeing. Third prize of $500 went to 28-year-old John Rogers Cox for White Cloud, a stylized, theatrically lighted farm scene under a lone, spectacular cumulus vapor...
More bombers dropped out of the overcast, ghosted through long streamers of cloud below. Their job was easier: the target area could be plainly seen. They made short bombing runs, unloaded while Thunderbolt fighters took on the German pursuit in short, angry dogfights. Then the bombers crawled back into the clouds and headed for home...