Word: overcast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under overcast skies yesterday, Harvard found itself in a surprisingly close contest at halftime. The laxwomen opened the game with a quick goal in the first minute of play only for Brown to score 43 seconds later. Then Harvard scored twice more, but again the Bruins found the net just 20 seconds later. The see-saw battle saw the half end with Harvard holding a precarious 6-5 lead...
...constant air bombardment is probably the major cause of casualties. It also shapes practically every aspect of life behind E.P.L.F. lines. Unless skies are overcast, vehicles are not permitted to move during the day. Trucks or jeeps are hidden beneath nearly every acacia tree. Antiaircraft guns are on constant alert. Every rebel building is covered with vines and tree branches; * some permanent structures have 2-ft.-thick stone walls that can withstand barrages of shrapnel. Civilians are regularly lectured on how to wipe burning napalm jelly from their skin...
...prepared to lift off once again, a light snow was falling under overcast skies, but visibility was a good twelve miles. Pilot Griffin was first told by the tower to take off to the west, which would have put the plane quickly over the town of Gander and its 12,000 residents. Fortunately for the town, the wind shifted and the captain was directed to use a runway toward the south...
...humid day and overcast," recalled Yakub Ali, a 40-year-old farmer on the tiny Bangladeshi island of Urirchar. "First came the dark and the menacing clouds. Soon the wind started whistling ominously. Then the heavy rains began to fall." At first Yakub thought with relief that the torrents might disperse the stifling heat, which can exceed 100 degrees F at this time of year. But the downpour quickly gained greater and still greater force. As the alarmed farmer walked out of his hut, he came upon his neighbors gathering in the night. There was frightened talk that Danger Signal...
...talks with him went on to the end of a gray and overcast afternoon. At the time, Gromyko was 72. At the beginning of the meeting, he had seemed fit and younger than his years, but at the end he looked aged and tired, and wiped his brow with his bare hand in apparent fatigue and relief. Perhaps he was glad that nothing worse had been said about Poland. He may also have realized that when he and I met again, the subject in all its danger for the world and shame for the Soviet Union would...