Word: overcasts
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...Oscar Philip Jones, 52, veteran of 3,000,000 air miles, shifted his course, made an unscheduled fuel stop at bleak Gander, Newfoundland. Airborne again after two hours, Elizabeth visited Jones at the controls-asking, he reported later, "some knowledgeable questions." At noon the plane let down through heavy overcast at Montreal's Dorval airport before a crowd of more than 25,000 people...
...just ten minutes behind schedule, Captain Hedden reported in to the tower at Oakland Airport, and began a standard instrument letdown through the overcast...
...brisk, and, when MacArthur had gripped the last hand, he climbed slowly up the steps to his Constellation, the Bataan. His wife and 13-year-old son Arthur were already aboard. At 7:23 a.m., while the band played Auld Lang Syne, the Bataan roared off into the murky overcast, bound for home...
Second Threshold (by Philip Barry, with revisions by Robert E. Sherwood) was left not quite finished at Playwright Barry's death a year ago. The play itself is overcast with thoughts of death. It portrays the soul sickness of a distinguished public figure who has paid too heavily, in inner hardness and human loss, for the world's prizes. Even between him and the daughter he loves there is a gulf, now widened by her engagement to another such aging man of distinction as himself. Numb and parched, Josiah Bolton (Clive Brook) casts about for an unobtrusive...
...Horrendous Hypothesis. Suppose that on an overcast, autumn morning, a Russian bomber carrying an atomic bomb the equivalent of 50,000 tons of high explosives swept through the stratosphere above New York and dropped its missile. Suppose that the bomb was timed to explode half a mile in the air over Union Square...