Word: clouding
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...superclean force may have lulled the community into smugness about the police. Both Cincinnati's city hall and its two daily newspapers were tame watchdogs. Said one dismayed patrolman: "The top man has been indicted; it couldn't be much worse. There is a dark cloud hanging over all of us." So much so that when Acting Chief Myron Leistler took over, one of his first acts was to replace the entire 13-man vice squad...
...Hindenburg contains many beautiful, technically ingenious shots showing a model of the great airship sailing majestically through all sorts of weather and cloud conditions. It also contains many lovingly detailed re-creations of the craft's interior-the elegantly appointed public rooms, the bridge, the 804-ft.-long canvas hull where the volatile hydrogen that kept the thing afloat was stored...
...year or so before he died, saying, "Do you find yourself thinking about your father more and more?" and I said, "I do." It's as if an old man in a long white beard were waiting to fold you in his arms from some beautiful billowy cloud...
...down the middle, gravy stains on his tie, a beer bottle or a container of coffee in one hand and a badly chewed but unlighted cigar in the other, Harris can hardly be mistaken for a limousine liberal. "The difference between me and McGovern," he told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, "is that I never tell people that they ought to do something because it's morally right. I show how it's in their own self-interest. My dad used to listen to McGovern and then say, 'Well, it sounds fine, but when's he gonna...
With the spectators behind us, Walker skirts a dozen disabled vehicles before hitting a rugged series of parallel flash-flood ravines. Beyond the windshield, the horizon pitches erratically. Suddenly a blue two-seater racer materializes inside the amber cloud of dust enveloping us. Like a mechanical mantis, it springs from gully to boulder until Evans grows impatient and swerves to bump it aside. Evans laughs: "From here on out I'm running my own race...