Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Storm Cloud on the Volga. Russia showed last week that it was also worried about the political weather of the area behind Marshal Timoshenko's lines. In the heart of Russia, by the Volga River, lay an ethnological storm cloud- the Volga German Republic. This was a colony of hundreds of thousands of Germans, descendants of peasants invited into Russia in the 18th Century by Catherine the Great. These Germans, potential fifth columnists, were last week ordered to move, bag, baggage and bomb, to Siberia...
...Once you get off the main road you are either driving in a blinding cloud of dust or, when it rains, you are sliding about in a good imitation of marmalade...
...Negro company of the 367th Infantry at Camp Claiborne, La., a black first sergeant spoke dire words: "From now on when Ah blows dis yere whistle, Ah wants to see a huge impenetratable cloud of dust come boilin' outa them tents. An' when 'at dust clears away, Ah wants to find three rows of statues...
Before the sergeant's 'chute had billowed into a white cloud just below and behind the plane's tail, the second man had jumped. Within ten seconds, the cabin was empty. The 'chutes drifted compactly together, behind the clump from the other plane, scudding swiftly downwind. The crews aboard the planes circling overhead saw the first jumpers hit ground, roll, vanish among their flattening parachutes. A flight sergeant yelled: "Hell, they're in the trees!" Some of the 'chutists had indeed gone into the trees; one landed in a creek. Damage: a couple...
...Shepherd of the Hills (Paramount) is homespun Harry Carey, who returns to his Ozark mountain home after a long prison term and proceeds to restore the feuding hillbillies to their once kindly ways. Pictorially superb, the Technicolored film suffers from its endless moralizing and Cloud-Cuckoo language. Shown at Branson, Mo., in the heart of the Ozarks, it so stirred one native that he picketed the local cinema with a placard: UNFAIR TO LOCAL CHARACTERS...