Word: overcast
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...almost unbroken silence the ship's crew assembled as witnesses and watched one delegate after another affix their signatures. Grey, overcast skies had hung over the ship all during the ceremony. As the New Zealand delegate stepped forward to sign his name as the last on the list, the skies parted and the sun shone bright through the clouds...
...midsummer doldrums, with most of the A-budget productions as drab as the overcast sky and as treacly as its sunlight, some brisk, modest B pictures are brightening the outlook considerably. Last spring's rapid-fire Dillinger (Monogram), made at a cost of $145,000, has already grossed $900,000. Last fall's vivid When Strangers Marry (Monogram) is less of a moneymaker but one of the best of the Bs. By last week, cinemaddicts were talking up two more good new ones...
...recognized as one of the Corps's ablest celestial navigators. This led to his transfer to bombardment and the first B-17s. He navigated a flight 600 miles out to sea-a famous and daring feat in 1937-and came out of the overcast over his objective, the Italian liner...
Even the provocation of the bold, unprecedented strikes by Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet against northern Honshu and Hokkaido had failed to lure out the remnants of the Japanese air force. The weather over Hokkaido was foul; the low overcast blocked the efforts of flyers from Vice Admiral John S. McCain's flagship Shangri-La (and her many sister carriers) to find the fields where the Jap planes were supposed to be skulking. Not a single Kamikaze roared over the fleet...
January 21 was partially overcast and we were southeast of Formosa. On the Essex we were eating noon chow. At 12:09 the 5-inch guns opened up, and the bell clanged for general quarters. Everybody rushed topside. The Ticonderoga was bil lowing black smoke 300 feet high. Seven planes had sneaked through. Six were shot down but the seventh crashed through the Ti's flight deck. She was badly...