Word: overcast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet, misty afternoon last week in Remscheid, a working-class town in West Germany's Ruhr district, a U.S. A-10A fighter plane suddenly plummeted out of the low overcast, its twin jets screaming. "It raced over my head at a height of about 15 meters ((roughly 50 ft.)) and came down like a huge fireball," said Fritz Hesse, who was working on his roof...
...Brownsville, Texas' southern-most city, winds began to pick up around noon under overcast skies...
This year, I'll remember that overcast day when Neil Phillips made that sensational touchdown catch against Bucknell...
What sort of day was May 15? In Moscow it began with an overcast sky that brightened briefly before being darkened by thunderclouds. In the Arctic Ocean, the nuclear-powered icebreaker Sibir was cruising toward the scientific station North Pole 27. In Central Asia scientists secretly tested the 170 million-h.p. Energia booster rocket, the world's most powerful. Through the day, photographers scoured areas once strictly off limits. Some places remained out-of-bounds: military academies were accessible; most military installations were...
...Unfortunately, the tight security around the reporters only betrayed the government's fear of the guerrillas. Soviet-made Mi-24 helicopter gunships whirred protectively overhead, sweeping across the surrounding terrain. From a distance came the echoes of explosions. And a few miles away plumes of smoke snaked into an overcast...