Word: overcast
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...miles east of the field, a motorist saw the horrible finish. The big ship came out of the overcast in a long glide. It never leveled out. With a terrific roar it struck the ground in an open field, smashed into a deep ditch, lumbered out of it, burst into bright fire...
...doing somber Cézanne-like landscapes and gloomy Picassoish nudes and rabbis before most U.S. modern artists had abstracted their first cube. Painter Weber's prize-winning entry, a ruggedly outlined, moody landscape called Winter Twilight, showed a pair of gaunt tree trunks grimly clutching an overcast sky before a background of cliffs and buildings...
...have been "routine." The long screaming run down the airport as the plane labored to lift its heavy load of gasoline. The plane-hungry bogs around the airport giving way to the long swells of the Atlantic under the plane's wings. The long slant upward above the overcast for a tailwind and air too cold and dry for icing. The navigator's intent face reflected from the cabin windows as he read his sextant. The creeping cold of high altitude. The bulbous oxygen masks...
...Blenheim reconnaissance plane skimmed in and out of the overcast above the North Sea one midnight last week chasing a Nazi seaplane. The seaplane dodged into a cloud. The Blenheim followed, lost touch with its quarry, emerged suddenly into a clear patch over the sea just off Egersund, Norway...
Would it be won in the stratosphere and just under the overcast and skimming along over the hedges...