Word: overcast
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...raining heavily as the C46 Curtiss Commando snored down through the morning overcast over Long Island and headed for New York's big Idlewild International Airport. The plane, a cargo transport, had left Fort Lauderdale, Fla. seven hours before with 13,700 Ibs. of cut flowers, fresh vegetables and lingerie. It had made a routine flight, with fuel stops at Charleston, S.C. and Raleigh, N.C., and despite the murk it seemed about to make an equally routine landing-the ceiling hung at 500 feet and visibility was a mile and a half...
...last words, the half-staffed flags of London climbed upward once again to fly at full-staff for six hours, in honor of the new Queen. The sun itself, as though a providential stage manager had planned it, chose that moment to break through the dismal overcast. As the heraldic procession moved on, in gilded coaches, to proclaim the great tidings at other key points in the city, Londoners felt a warmth in their hearts like the sudden sunlight. The dead King was not forgotten, but today they had a new Queen...
...storm took at least four lives and possibly more yesterday, grounded two major airlines at Logan, and caused hundreds of creeping cars to skid into accidents. Today's highest temperature will not rise above the middle thirties, and the general overcast should not clear up until tomorrow morning...
Light snow blew across the Buffalo Airport one afternoon last week as American Airlines Flight 6780, bound for Newark, taxied out for takeoff. The sky was overcast, ceiling 3,000 ft., visibility two miles...
...twilight sky and reveal the position of the sun below the horizon. Then the sun could be used to steer by, just as if it were visible. If Dr. Waterman's work is successful, U.S. pilots may some time steer across the North Pole, high above the overcast, guided by an instrument patterned on the eye of a horseshoe crab...