Word: clouding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...warhead would contain only a mixture of weak gunpowder and fine particles of lead or steel. The particles would spread into a cloud, which would continue moving in the orbit. By the time the cloud reached the satellite, it would-be 70,000 ft. in diameter-so large that the satellite would be almost sure to pass through it. The particles would be thinly spread, but Dr. Thomas figures that at least one in a million would hit the satellite...
...particles, a warhead weighing 8,000 Ibs. would punch 8.000 holes in the satellite station. The deadly little particles would be moving in slightly elliptical orbits around the earth. They would scatter widely, then concentrate again. Each time the damaged satellite circled the earth, it would run into the cloud of particles at the same point in its orbit, get 8,000 more hits, and soon begin to look like a cheese grater...
...cloud itself was kind of rough," wrote a sailor, "yet it looked smooth - something like a cauliflower." Poets were not invited to Operation Ivy to witness the dawn of the hydrogen age, so it was as a cauliflower that the H-bomb's first cloud was trademarked last week - a realistic if nonpoetic progression in vegetables from the A-bomb's first mushroom...
...observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab. As the cloud cooled, it began to billow outward...
...United States Debate Tournament begins tomorrow at West Point with 32 teams representing the eight districts competing. The College faces St. Cloud College in its first preliminary round match. The debate topic for the national championships is" Resolved, That the United States should adopt a policy of free trade...