Word: overcast
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...began smoking heavily. I bailed out at 800 feet and landed on the inland side of a small bowl east of the main supply route. The North Koreans were lined up on the road, firing away. A half-hour later-it was late afternoon now-a solid overcast blew in from the ocean and completely covered the mountains. The minute that happened, I took and went up the mountain." "There He Goes." Meanwhile, intelligence of Captain Wilkins' plight flashed back to naval headquarters at Wonsan Harbor, and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) John Kelvin Koelsch, a 27-year-old helicopter pilot...
Newsmen huddled on cold (10°), windy (40 m.p.h.) Mt. Charleston, nearly 50 miles away, muttered with frustration. The blast was a disappointment: the sky lit up with a dull red glow for a second; the mushroom cloud was hidden in the dark overcast; the sound bounced over Mt. Charleston completely...
...enormous flame and a cloud of smoke spurt out of the booster bottle. In a few seconds the plane is airborne. The exhausted rocket drops off, and the pilot proceeds. His sudden departure resembles a scene from a space-flight movie, and the ground around the launcher is overcast with smoke, but at no time does the pilot experience more than a moderate four "Gs" of acceleration...
...Arroyo Seco, which means dry gulch. But last week the field was anything but that; it was a sea of mud. Rain fell throughout the game. TV Announcer Mel Allen, who seemed to have been briefed by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, spoke first of an "overcast," then of a "mist," and finally, quite frankly of rain ("How about that...
...rainy afternoon last week, an Italian airliner approached New York City's International (Idlewild) Airport through a low overcast from which heavy rain was falling. Guided by instruments and radar, Captain Guglielmo Algarotti brought the airplane out of ragged clouds at 300 ft. altitude and tried to land on Runway 22. He missed it and circled back into the clouds...