Word: clouds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chill, grey dawn, near Malta, Mont., some 250 people waited nervously. John Q. Stewart, Princeton astronomer, and General Electric's James Stokley, old hands who had worked on three previous eclipses, frowned blackly at the cloud-covered eastern sky. They had rehearsed for weeks for this event. They had taken a Lloyds insurance policy against the disaster of a cloudy day. They and their 60 assistants (including famed Princeton Physicist Ira Freeman and his wife), were primed with cameras, light meters, other eclipse-recording paraphernalia...
...through the Government departments there are so many niggers it's like a black cloud all around...
Flak was spotty. Fighter opposition-on some raids at least-was weak. But weather was playing the enemy's game. On one raid the cloud cover was so thick that B-29 men could hardly see beyond their wingtips as they nervously watched ice thickening on the leading edges. Soupy fog kept navigators and bombardiers on instruments. After one raid more than 70 Superforts had to make emergency landings on Iwo.*But the planes drilled through, and reported the clouds over one city glowing "like a hot plate" from the flames below...
...troops down here to start work. But instead I asked for the loan of you chaps, and you arrive the next day in two little trucks. The next thing I know you have hired all the natives with two arms and two feet for miles around and a big cloud of dust rises over the field and when it settles three weeks later . . . there I see my runway! God, do you wonder I love...
...muscular prose. Said Hugo La Fayette Black: "The Williamses have been convicted under a statute so uncertain in its application that not even the most learned member of the bar could have advised them in advance as to whether their conduct would violate the law. . . . [This] will cast a cloud over the lives of countless . . . divorced persons...