Word: nimbostratus
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...hail to TIME for attempting to re-establish the line between the poet and the square. But-is this a dagger which I see before me? Your artist's rendering of the poet looks very like a camel. Or like a whale. Or like Prufrock peering from a nimbostratus. Lowell is an excellent poet within the confines of his own self-lacerations. But the poet who deserves (in sunlight) to grace your cover is James Dickey, who, far from measuring out his life with coffee spoons, writes with joy and imagination and vitality about the sanguine world in which...
...Most dangerous are the low, dark nimbostratus (because of its poor visibility and the danger of icing) and the stormy thunderhead, cumulonimbus. Also to be avoided: the wavy, handsome billow cloud-which gives a very billowy ride...
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