Word: clouds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm was rising over New Guinea. One day last week, through a cloud slit in the turbulent sky, a heavy-bellied Liberator (6-24) spied something to break the monotony of its patrol: 14 leaden ships upon a leaden ocean...
Outside the city, Painters Manet and Degas went horse racing at Longchamp, while Seurat settled himself down to immortalize La Grande Jatte with shimmering pictures of ladies taking the afternoon sun under the island's trees. In the town of St. Cloud, whose park reveals the most magnificent panorama of Paris, Paris-born Alfred Sisley painted one of his best, The Bridge at St. Cloud. In the tranquil village of Giverny, Claude Monet contemplated the ice and snow on the winter stream, and in summer the riot of purple irises and rare water lilies in his garden...
...Cloud by Day. Rommel, through the 13 weeks of the pursuit, kept carefully out of reach. He abandoned hundreds of tons of new and tip-top matériel. He lost thousands of not so tip-top Italians. Parts of his rear guard vanished in shreds. But his retreat was orderly and he managed to keep intact a great part of his Panzer division and Afrika Korps, for he could move back more swiftly than Montgomery could move forward across scorched countrysides, dragging behind him his ever-lengthening supply lines. That Montgomery was able to move as fast...
...Road became a cloud of dust by day, reeking with the stench of hot metal and gasoline. Bumper to bumper, crawling at five miles an hour, humping along at 25, went outsize lorries, gasoline and water transports, trailers laden with tanks, ten-ton Whites, ten-ton Macks, three-ton Fords and Chevrolets (75% of the wheeled traffic was U.S.-made), staff cars, jeeps, moving westward, returning eastward for more supplies...
...smoke machines, now in mass production, are capable of blanketing wide areas such as the nearby Martin aircraft plant or even the entire Panama Canal to protect them from bombers. >Newest chemical grenade is a small smoke-producer that belches a cloud of green, red, purple or any other color. It was developed on the Army's demand for a method of tank identification in the dust-choked confusion of desert fighting...