Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corn grows eight feet tall and string beans climb way up over a man's head. In this country, where peasants came out to the road to present him with such local delicacies as pears and, hazelnuts, the handshaking tactics worked well enough. But in towns, where clouds of policemen sealed him off from the populace, Gulek soon found that the only hands he got to shake were those ..of Republican People's Party committeemen. Accordingly, in Rize, where terraced tea plantations run up into cloud-capped mountains, Gulek decided on a new gambit-shopping. Casually, he strolled...
Weather radar works by sending out pulses of radio waves which are reflected by raindrops, hailstones and other precipitation particles. Shorter waves rebound from the tiny drops of moisture of a cloud's surface. The longer wave bands penetrate clouds like X rays, show only the inner core (if any) of heavy rain or hail.- Thus, by varying wave bands and pulse lengths, the new weather radars can look at a cloud as a whole or can look deeply into it, or even through it. They can measure accurately a cloud's altitude -a matter of critical importance...
Lazy as a cloud, the black-hulled, three-masted schooner Creole loafed along the coast of Spain last week. To gay music on the intercom, the 190-ft. Creole, world's biggest privately owned sailing vessel, stole past silver-sanded coves and pastel villages. On sunny afternoons, while the schooner lay at anchor, passengers dipped in the warm water or sipped in cafes ashore. After dark, white-gloved stewards moved unobtrusively among the guests in a softly lighted dining room hung with French impressionist paintings. Pushed by gentle winds, the Creole headed at week...
...busy to do much soaring in between the international meets, Paul MacCready, 30, divides his time between meteorological research and running his own outfit, Meteorology, Inc., which specializes in cloud-seeding studies. He began soaring after training as a naval aviator during World War II, has kept it up to help work out his meteorological theories. "Rain, hail, lightning," says Paul, "all of them are byproducts of upcurrents. Soaring is a sport that teaches a scientist something...
...third night the glass dropped, and the weather took on all the characteristics of a tropical lull. We were still 165° on the compass when I looked up and saw a squall going all the way across the sky. It looked like a mushroom atom cloud, low with a black stem. The scene was eerie, with the moon not shining but giving just enough light to see. The sea was pretty big, and I said, 'This looks like the worst squall yet.' Then we had almost complete calm, a momentary clearing of the sky-and then torrential...