Word: clouded
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...There are not many Hail Mary passes in Congress. There are an awful lot of three-year-passes in a cloud of dust," Duberstein said...
...judicial coup d'etat." But then the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the sanctity of the election procedures, questioning the legality of the recount and bailing out Bush while the liberal dissenters warned that "preventing a recount from being completed will inevitably cast a cloud on the legitimacy of the election...
...will be hard for Gore to win the election if the counting is put off much longer. But it is Bush who got the stay--and Bush who the majority said would be harmed if the counting continued. What would the harm be? It could, Scalia writes, cast "a cloud upon what he claims to be the legitimacy of his election." It's a tricky argument: if the court wants to throw out the votes in the end, it would still be free to do so. But Scalia seems to be admitting that the court is afraid that once...
...ability to cloud men's minds like my hero the Shadow...
...permitting a basketball teammate of Jamal’s to sneer at him, “You may think we’re the same, but we’re not.” Van Sant follows suit, photographing a faculty-student function through a thick, sickly pale green cloud; his intent to demonize the people within it could not be made clearer if he equipped them all with red horns and pitchforks...