Word: clouding
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...Lila Bell Acheson in the second issue, "is successful beyond all anticipations." The fifth month brought a crisis; the Digest couldn't pay the printer, and Wallace was plunged in gloom. At first Lila was crushed by these moods, which would "just descend on him like a black cloud. It was all new to me-it just isn't in my nature to worry. Then I realized he liked to worry, so I started kidding him out of it." Another flood of subscriptions ended the crisis...
...high temperature. At one end of the lonophone's quartz tube is a small quartz cylinder with a coating that contains fine particles of platinum. When the platinum is heated electrically to about 1,000° C., it fills the horn-shaped cavity above it with a cloud of rapidly zigzagging ions. The ion cloud responds almost instantly to changes in the strength of a high-frequency electric field around the little quartz cylinder, and the cloud's expansion and contraction set up sound waves. When a current carrying music or voice signals is fed to the apparatus...
...listened as Big Brother pointed out every change in color, explaining which gases and rays were being released. They saw the atomic cloud grow and blossom into the familiar mushroom shape.* When the cloud reached its full height and the dust began to settle, the troops were checked for radioactivity and climbed back into their trucks. The mushroom top broke away and passed under the sun, blotting it out. The trucks rolled forward into the haze and the sour smell of burned cacti and Joshua trees...
...mountains surrounding Frenchman's Flat, the newsmen barred from the proving grounds (see PRESS) watched a 60-m.p.h. gale drive the atomic cloud toward Las Vegas. The AEC said that the cloud traveled at 40,000 ft., but on Charleston Peak a reporter at the 8,000-ft. level said the cloud passed directly over him about 1,000 ft. up. His shoes showed 10 milliroentgens of radiation, his car over 20 milliroentgens (50 to 100 roentgens are dangerous...
...awakening continent of Asia and the fighting in Korea as well as with Japan's meteoric rise & fall. Included in the welter of history are such memorable vignettes as the chaos of Pearl Harbor, the raising of the U.S. flag on the summit of Iwo Jima, the cloud of smoke & fire above Hiroshima. To keep abreast of the news, MOT will not shoot until the last minute some of the footage for the last of the 26 installments...