Word: clouding
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...Reds came around one day and told Vaclav Uhlik that they were going to nationalize his small machine shop in Pilsen, Vaclav made up his mind. He would escape to the West. Cautiously, he enlisted some friends in his plan: two Czech soldiers, a gardener named Josef Pisarik, Libuse Cloud, who had married an American G.I. from Sioux City back in 1949, but had never been able to get out of Czechoslovakia to join him. Then Vaclav swapped his most precious possession, a diesel engine, for a beaten-up British halftrack abandoned after...
...even raised a Tommy gun. The car rumbled westward for several miles before West German police caught up with it. Vaclav "unbuttoned" the armor and out tumbled eight happy Czechs. "I want to get to my husband and the U.S. the fastest way," said a very poised Mrs. Cloud. "Will you please telegraph...
...Sioux City, Husband Leonard Cloud heard about it from the newspapers. "Wonderful," said he. "It's what we've been hoping for for four years...
Dawn on May 29 made the Himalayas glow. Tenzing saw Thyangboche Monastery, 16,000 ft. below. At 6:30 they thawed out their boots and buckled on all that remained of the precious oxygen. The summit was hidden in cloud, but they knew it lay ahead and above...
What actually happened at the test was less reassuring. Just after the explosion, a cloud of radioactive dust settled over both houses. Three hours later, the farther house was still so radioactive that it could be entered for only a few minutes. Since this kind of radioactivity decays rapidly at first, its intensity must have been enormously higher just after the dust fell. People huddled in the basement shelters would certainly have been killed by this silent, insidious force...