Word: leaden
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...damp and chilling. Overhead, leaden black clouds were pushed across the sky by a gusty wind. The snow on the street was flecked with coal dust and dirt. It was melting slowly, producing desolate puddles of cold water...
...even the Tory leaders themselves were so unconfident of their party's principles that they had clutched socialism in a tepid, awkward embrace. Certainly, however, the British voter loved Labor less. A month ago, before the awakening, a TIME correspondent touring England by car ran into evidences of leaden disgust and shamed resignation. Said a Coventry bricklayer...
Over the Middle West last week the sky was leaden. Grey rain clouds rolled over the soggy, black earth; a sharp, tornadic wind whistled through the small towns, bringing death and destruction. Wild ducks, flying north, alighted on small lakes of rain water in the bottomland pastures. In Ohio, the cherry trees refused to bloom. In Illinois, some farmers gave up hope of putting in oats and decided to plant the acreage to corn or soy beans. Even light tractors bogged down in the squishy Missouri soil; one disgusted farmer near Independence sowed a 250-acre area in clover from...
...Liberal Government easily won its first test of strength in 1947. Last week, after 14 days of leaden debate on the policy-setting Speech from the Throne (TIME, Feb. 10), the House voted on a Progressive-Conservative motion of no confidence in the Government. The Government...
Western Air Lines, Inc. has had trouble keeping its financial altitude. It picked up during the war, made money. But it lost again this year with a leaden deficit of $267,037 in the first nine months, despite a third-quarter profit. Moreover, like many another U.S. airline, Western was overloaded with expansion plans. Even after canceling half its orders for new planes, Western had current liabilities of $6.5 million and current assets of only $2.6 million...