Word: clouding
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...this bright day, there is only one cloud to dull the sky for those who wear the Green. And, as usual, the cloud has an Orange lining. While Dublin Cheers and New York sends up its annual blue-coated paean to Shamrock land, the lads up north in Ulster must keep silent and dare not even march the streets of Belfast or toast Parnell with Irish Stout...
...exercising his privilege of silence, Dulles leaves the cloud of suspicion over Vincent. He also makes one wonder whether or not he is sacrificing the man to the accusations of the public. Loyalty within the State Department was made a huge issue during the past election, and it is only natural that congressmen have questioned and will continue to question those officials who participated in policy-making under Democratic administration. If the Secretary of State allows accusations to be tantamount to guilt, he is going to encourage a lot of muckrakers to hound his and other government departments...
...once an aspirant to a career in journalism, knows how to organize good political reporting. Before the precinct caucuses in Texas last May, his information convinced him that the Eisenhower forces would have a majority, but the Taft forces would probably bolt and hold rump sessions. Before the Texas cloud was even sighted on the national political scene, Brownell had decided that Texas was the crucial G.O.P. state, and had flown there to map his strategy. He called the signals on the Texas battle, and it proved to be the beginning of the Eisenhower breakthrough...
...that have recently been discovered in the earth's high atmosphere. The earth storms are masses of cold air that form just north of the equator, and probably to the south of it, too, at 30,000 ft. With each air-mass goes a sheet of high white cloud as much as 1,200 miles across. To a Jovian amateur astronomer, the clouds would look like brightly shining spots framing the earth's equator...
...after abolishing spring practice one year, they suddenly arouse it the next with attendant financial, personnel, and moral problems. After some years, the question of whether the game, the players and the spectators benefit from either method ought to be clear. At present, it is nothing more than a cloud of assumptions and unproved arguments...