Word: cirrus
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...moon which competed closer, their light was all, walking in the night, over the hills, the shadows of the rocks are precise and have their own place, everything is doubled, all of it together, half the sky of clouds came from the north until a great curve of cirrus broke off and wheeled an are beyond the moon and Orion through the whole east and far to open south the mountains of Sangre de Christo, in less than pain after sunset, are pearl and shadow pinon burned sage crushed and spread over skin under nose finally both pinon scruffy pine...
...even suggested damming the Bering Strait to make the Arctic warmer. Several countries have suggested melting part of the icecap by coating it with heat-absorbing carbon. U.S. scientists are considering the possibility of generating dust clouds in space to form sunshades, or creating broad bands of ice-crystal cirrus clouds that would allow the ground beneath to cool...
Slowly, solemnly Artur Rubinstein unfurled his arms and began to play the familiar melody. His nobly sloping brow tilted heavenward, his wispy white hair swirled about his dome like a wreath of cumulo-cirrus, his milky blue eyes shuttered in repose. Then, suddenly, everything went haywire. His left hand skittered out of control, his right did nip-ups. Harmonies collided, the tempo skidded and stumbled. Rubinstein did not bat an eye. His family and friends, huddled around the Steinway in a Manhattan hotel room, laughed heartily...
...always, so far, without exploding, though one 24-megaton bomb jettisoned by a B-52 was reportedly found in a field with five of its six safety interlocks set off. Such peace able activities as weather control have taken risks with equally destructive energies, as when the early Project Cirrus seeded an Atlantic hurricane with dry ice, only to have it veer 120° to sideswipe a thinly populated stretch of Georgia coast. Yet if a large-scale disaster actually does occur in a Government program, the injured public has no assurance of compensation...
...Jack Benny Program (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Cheap Jack impersonates Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury. Zeppelin-sized Announcer Don Wilson plays Benjamin Franklin. Cirrus-voiced Dennis Day is Aaron Burr...