Word: clouding
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...days later, as a 140-car freight train rumbled by tiny Youngstown in Florida's panhandle, all five locomotives hurtled off the track, piling up 47 cars like jackstraws. From one ruptured tanker poured a cloud of deadly, yellowish-green chlorine gas. Engineer Ray Shores grabbed his portable short-wave radio and sprinted 75 yds. to a swamp, where he burrowed deep into the mud and called for help...
...looked at first like fog to Richard Kuhn, who was driving home to New York from a skindiving vacation in Florida. Then his van stalled and he got a whiff of the searing vapor. Kuhn strapped on his scuba air tank and walked out of the death cloud to safety. Another motorist, Donald Sellers of Tallahassee, a veteran of Army chemical-warfare training, recognized the gas as chlorine and told his wife to get to the floor of the car, where there was still breathable air. "We were both vomiting," he said. "The car was a mess. Fortunately...
...miracle of genesis-is the ultimate concern in de Kooning's difficult, elusive, spontaneous art." The drift of Hess's passage seems to be that de Kooning, at 73, is much more than a tempest: he is either God or, at the very least, a primal cloud of cosmic gas. There have not been tropes like this since the old days at Art News...
...just ecstatic. I'm on cloud nine," exclaimed first year Crimson coach Joe Bernal last night. Bernal was happy that his troops avoided a repeat performance of the New Haven nighmare of two years ago, when the inspired Elis upended the undefeated and league-leading Crimson...
...their centrist political cohorts can convince the citizens of France that they are not simply the chief executives of an omnipotent industrial bourgeoisie. They must prove that although liberal parliamentary government and favorable business conditions go hand in hand, this does not indicate big-business manipulation. Although many issues cloud the political scene in France, the ethical legitimation of the present form of authority stands above all others in importance...