Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted, they said. And they got politicians to go to work for them in Congress. Then the lines began to form, the sparks to fly. Roosevelt, Nelson, Knudsen, Patterson, Biddle, Perkins all came out strongly for labor and against any legislation. The lie, which had been created to cloud the Murray plan now turned into an attack against the New Deal in general, reminiscent of the last days of the 1940 presidential campaign...
...They took their time. . . . They swooped lower over the road, then swept steeply up into the clear blue sky. . . . Another few hundred yards along the road . . . nine bombers detached themselves lazily from the cloud of aircraft that now followed us almost like an escort. . . .Again there was the whistle of bombs, again the earth rocked as we threw ourselves into a ditch. . . . Fighters came in the wake of the bombers, with white smoke from spitting machine guns around their noses like halos, and the never-breaking whistle of bombs seemed to be all around us again...
...island-studded stretches of the Pacific, the U.S. Navy was in heavy battle against the Japanese. It was not a single battle, but many. The results were not as yet decisive, for the cloud of censorship was as thick as the cloud of battle. But this much was clear: the Navy had task forces out, and they were at work...
ALSO, THIS IS A TINY CLOUD...
...Voyage: "But there is one thing that I wish you to know, that, in my humble opinion, since Genoa was Genoa, no other man has been born so magnanimous and so keen in practical navigation as the above-mentioned Lord Admiral: for, when navigating, by only looking at a cloud or by night at a star he knew what was going to happen and whether there would be foul weather; he himself both conned and steered at the helm; and when the storm had passed over, he made sail while others were sleeping...