Word: overcasts
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...judge by the film, the sisters were rather like Little Women on an overcast day. Father Brontë (Montagu Love), though a grouch, was not really a bad old sort. Emily (Ida Lupino) found stimulation in a skyline wreck which she called "Wuthering Heights," and frequently flared her nostrils at the moors. Charlotte (Olivia de Havilland), a pretty, man-apt, comfortable soul, was the last sort of girl in the world you would expect to write a novel, even Jane Eyre-which, one gathers, was just a drugstore romance. Arrogant Brother Branwell (Arthur Kennedy), more true to history, drowned...
...great day itself will be chosen by Colonel B. G. Holzman, a meteorologist. For proper observation, there should be no overcast. But the Colonel's greatest worry will be the mighty cloud of radioactive gases and particles which will rise like a thunderhead above the explosion. From it may fall a deadly sprinkle, and the Colonel's job is to see that it falls on empty ocean...
When the presidential Sacred Cow took off from Washington National Airport, through cold rain and slush, all commercial airplanes had been grounded for three hours, and would be for ten hours more. The Sacred Cow flew in & out of a pea-soup overcast, ran into violent headwinds and icing. It arrived in Kansas City an hour and 19 minutes overdue. Even the President conceded that, while he had seen rougher trips, he had not seen many...
After a series of overcast days, the sun burst out over Shanghai's busy river front this morning. There was a sparkle of excitement and hope...
...their own high-pitched squeaks, owls need some light, but not much. Light as dim as a single candle burning nearly half a mile away was bright enough for a barred owl to find his mouse. Barn owls needed slightly more. The floor of a thick forest on an overcast, moonless night is considerably darker-too dark for an owl to get around in and see what he's up to. Under such murky conditions, Dr. Dice's experiments indicated, an owl flies, if at all, on instruments...