Word: thunderhead
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Later, in a remarkable, ironic letter to his brother in Sweden, Hammarskjold made clear how he felt about Khrushchev: "The big shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant 'nonCommunists' with hail and thunder and probably also locusts and other plagues traditionally favored by tribal gods...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew home from Washington last week and ran headlong into a thunderhead of trouble...
...Schwarzschild realizes that only an astronomer can appreciate the full beauty of his photographs. They are covered with roundish bright spots, each of which is a bubble of hot gas 200-500 miles in diameter that has worked its way up from the sun's interior like a thunderhead. The charm of the pictures, says Schwarzschild, is their unprecedented sharpness...
...were caused by the proposed U.S. Air Force budget. As congressional hearings went on behind closed doors. Wall Streeters were busily trying to figure which companies would be able to fly off with the biggest share of the contracts. Aircraft stocks bounced up and down like jets in a thunderhead. North American Aviation was down from a 1956-57 high of 49⅞ to 31⅞ while General Dynamics jumped 3¼ points to a new high at 61¼, followed closely by Boeing with a gain of 2⅛ points...
Storm Buster. Cook, 34, learned to fly at 14 and soloed at 15. Last year, while dusting crops in the Nebraska panhandle, he made a sideline of busting hailstorms. Whenever an unusually black and mean-looking thunderhead drifted toward the sugar-beet fields of the North Platte Valley, Cook would fly into it, seeding its turbulent heart with silver-iodide particles. This maneuver provided the cloud with plenty of nuclei for ice to form on, so the hailstones did not grow big enough to fall and cut up the tender beet leaves...