Word: clouding
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...winter, who'd follow insanity and go to the woods of New Hampshire? If we evacuate our cities, an adversary would think we were planning a pre-emptive strike, so we would have to wait until the last minute. And you can't tell where the radioactive cloud could go. It would depend on the wind patterns...Drowning is more humane advice than incineration...
...votes for which the country would have to pay later. Some middle-of-the-road opinion was also scandalized. "The Israeli government has suddenly evaporated," commented Columnist Amnon Dankner in Tel Aviv's daily Ha'aretz. "It is hovering over the earth like some pinkish cloud out of which there rains down on us every week Aridor's latest portion of manna." Nonetheless, the manna was fattening the average wage earner's buying power and providing for goods that were previously far too expensive...
...every cloud has its silver lining. Pepperdine is handicapped by the loss of its number-one player due to an injury. And, if the Crimson scores and upset, they stand in good shape...
Above the 1981 baseball season's uncommonly sunny start there looms a dark cloud left over from a winter of discontent. There is every chance of a strike of baseball players...
...have Americans, French, Germans and Japanese, as well as Wodehouse's fellow countrymen, bought some 30 million volumes of these comic fantasies, set in a neverland of unambiguous upper-class twits, where it is always a bright spring morning with nary a cloud of poverty, malice or lust? Analyzing Wodehouse is like trying to bisect a meringue. The whimsy of Blandings Castle and the Drones Club crumbles to the touch. Names like Freddie Threepwood, Oofy Prosser and Marmaduke Chuffnell lose by the listing...