Word: clouding
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...first mission, James releases a cloud of smoke, protecting him from sharpshooters but obliterating his comrades' view of him. (There's another company ready to cover him closer to the action.) A taxi has just edged toward the suspected device; he tells the driver to back out of the area. No movement. James walks closer, repeats the order; stillness. He puts his gun against the man's head: "Wanna back up?" The car slides into reverse. "Well, if he wasn't an insurgent," somebody says, "he sure is now." Finding a string nearly buried in the street dirt, James finds...
...long-standing criticism, though, is that NIH/NCI is necessarily structured for caution, for limited returns based on individual scientists grinding it out in their labs--the three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust mentality. To get funding, individual researchers typically have to write grant proposals that demonstrate a reasonable expectation of success. "You have to have already done some of the stuff and then propose it, before they're going to believe it's the right thing to do," says Dr. Ray DuBois, executive vice president of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and a cancer researcher. A proposal can take months...
...racing against Phil Hill--who died on Aug. 28 at age 81--in 1967 in Sebring, Fla. It was toward the end of his career and near the beginning of mine. He was behind me, challenging my Ford with his Chaparral. All of a sudden, I saw a cloud of smoke, and his car blew out. What a relief it was, because he was a relentless, versatile driver with a fantastic record of success...
...shafted, and he never really got over it. I think he said, I'm on my own now." The Keating ordeal led McCain to team up with Democrat Russ Feingold on soft-money restrictions - not only to attack political corruption but also to remove what he saw as a cloud hanging over honorable politicians...
Says a GOP operative who informally advises the campaign: "All I can tell you is this: if Lieberman is picked, the dome of the convention hall will blow off. There will be a mushroom cloud...