Word: clouds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week long a cloud-part frost, part smoke, part dust-hung over the agony of Budapest. From the heights of Buda, Red Army soldiers occasionally saw the spires of a cathedral swim out of the cloud's dark folds, stand in the clear for a few moments, disappear again. For miles around, the snow was black with soot from the cloud. In the heart of the town a grim struggle raged through the days & nights, block by block, brick by brick. As the battle neared its 15th day, the Russians had won more than...
Meanwhile, President-elect Arévalo, a realist, had sent a mission to Washington in search of the Lend-Lease arms reported to have been promised to his predecessor. Dictator Federico Ponce. The mission, which traveled by plane, was surrounded by as many cloud banks of secrecy as a Big Three meeting. Some members swooped out of the clouds long enough to be recognized in Chicago. Others, supposed to be in Washington, had gone officially underground...
...Hurley unlimbered some of his best anecdotes. Colonel Barrett translated with idiomatic gusto. As the car forded the shallow Yen River, General Hurley cracked: "It reminds me of my old home in Oklahoma. There you could tell when a school of fish was swimming upriver by the cloud of dust it raised...
...words, all original and all extremely funny, often in the worst possible circumstances. Sometimes they have been written with influenza during all-night air raids, and sometimes with just influenza. In the winter they have been written with no coal . . . and in the summer either in a cloud of wasps or (as in the summer of 1944) in a cloud of wasps and a nonstop bombardment by flying bombs. During the raids there was the ever-present anxiety that the local [pub] had been hit, thus cutting the last link with civilization. This anxiety entailed frequent visits to the local...
...marriage. I mean to do just that-at least until after the war is over." Asked if she looked forward to meeting the Roosevelt family, she said: "I'm a loyal Democrat, you know." Asked why the couple chose to be married in a glassed-in observation station, cloud-high amid the swirling mists of the Grand Canyon, the bride replied: "Our marriage means so much to us both that we wanted to begin it as beautifully as possible...