Word: overcasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people came. In the thronged square, Social Democratic Leader Ernst Spars climbed on to a platform. He pointed to the overcast skies which had for two weeks been filled with the roar of U.S. planes carrying food to besieged Berlin. "Up there," cried Spars, "the American people are showing their faith in the cause of our Berlin brothers every hour of every day. Yet we-their fellow countrymen-have done nothing. Now we must act! There is not much food for us here in Melsungen, but let us share with those brave Berliners what little we have...
With George Hauptfuhrer still hobbled with tape, Crimson chances at Hanover tonight are overcast with gloom. In fact, victory for the quintet would be an upset; a close game, a moral victory...
...tomorrow," declared Manhattan's WOR weatherman, "will be cloudy and overcast." Then he added, "or, as the French would put it, triste...
This prosperity did not cover everything. The private plane industry flew through an overcast of bankruptcies; most prefabricated housing still remained in the box. The airlines dropped an estimated $13 million in the most disastrous year they ever had, and the big plane companics sat, hat in hand, in Washington, pleading with the Government to save their industry...
...bountiful crop and other blessings" fell on Monday this year, most Canadians made a long weekend of it. In Ontario, crisp, clear weather favored the football games- Hamilton's Tigers lost to Toronto's Argonauts, 13 to 1. Over the northern prairies lay a heavy overcast; "fowl weather," said the gunners, setting out to shoot geese or ducks for the holiday table. At Mile 450, on the railway to Churchill, the Rev. W, E. Williamson hoped to bag a caribou, planned to share the meat with his Negro congregation in Chicago...