Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must be withheld by employers on all earnings over $12 a week. (Farm hands and domestic workers will not have the tax deducted, but must settle with the Treasury next year.) It will cast the first income-tax cloud over many a new-rich war worker: an estimated 49,000,000 persons will have to pay it. But for all taxpayers, it has a silver lining of which few are yet aware...
...retreat from El Alamein. Until he was ready, he had kept Rommel in a state of nervousness with jabs of armored cars and tanks. First clue to his readiness came last week. Heavy artillery began to bellow from behind the British lines. Over the Axis position rolled a cloud of some 300 Allied planes. Infantry advanced. British tanks struck at the inland end of the Axis lines. British forces surged against the northern end. Rommel made scarcely a pretense of holding. He was up and off in retreat...
...visible signs are two flat-topped pillars of smoke rising, one from Buna and one from Gona, and the Flying Fortresses weaving across the top of Buna through sooty puffs of ack-ack fire which are ragged now from repeated bombing. There is nothing else to see but the cloud-spattered tropic sky above the vast bowl of sun-drenched, emerald-green jungle, which is interspersed with patches of yellow, man-high kunai grass. In this incredibly tangled mass of rank vegetation and evil smelling swamps, thousands of men, Americans, Australians and Japanese, are engaged in one of the most...
...emptied his rifle at a gun nest and then grabbed another rifle; the other men reloaded and he fired. He figured he threw about 300 lead punches. Out of ammunition, the men in the crater crouched and prayed. At dawn the prize fighter jumped out under cover of a cloud of smoke and, "half crawling and half walking," helped get the wounded to the rear. His purse: shell shock, malaria, minor shrapnel wounds, a corporal's rank, recommendation for a distinguished service award. His only complaint: "No referee to break the clinches...
...floor up to platforms above each basket (as shown in the accompanying picture) will not only prove a boon to the actual playing of the game, but will also serve to stimulate spectator interest, something which the coach considers of primary importance at a time when war cloud threaten to eclipse all progress in competitive athletics. "It's well worth a fair trial," brown stated, "and while basketball is still on its feet we should do everything possible to encourage progress in the game...