Word: clouding
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When a hard-pressed cattleman commented, "La Frutera's rainmaker is capturing our clouds with a net!" many were inclined to agree that some kind of cloud-rustling was indeed going on. Local newspapers ran cartoons that showed Pilot Silverthorne as an airborne cowboy herding clouds with a lariat...
...their time ran out, opposition Senators took on an air of desperation and despair. "We will be making the mistake of our lives," cried Missouri's Forrest Donnell. Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry raised an atomic cloud over the issue: "A treaty supersedes a law. Are we committing ourselves ... to share the atomic bomb?" Cried Ohio's Robert Taft: "It is not a peace program, it is a war program...
...Floating Cloud. The Order of the Mystic Shrine, sometimes called Masonry's "playground,"† is a kind of detached and whimsical cloud floating somewhere above Masonry's topmost branches. Its members must all be 32nd degree Masons or Knights Templar. It was started about 1870 by William Florence who was fascinated by some Oriental rites he saw in Marseille. Florence was a well-known American comedian of his day. Harold Lloyd, the new Imperial Potentate, therefore follows in a noble tradition...
...rise to about 4,500 ft. Then they exploded in midair or fell into the water, or, blown by a sudden southeast wind, sped over the city and dropped on the besiegers. Venetians, abandoning their homes, crowded into the streets and squares to enjoy the strange spectacle . . . When a cloud of smoke appeared in the air to make an explosion, all clapped and shouted. Applause was greatest when the balloons blew over the Austrian forces and exploded, and in such cases the Venetians added cries of 'Bravo!' and 'Good appetite...
Casey Stengel was floating on a fleecy cloud. In his managerial cubbyhole at Yankee Stadium, Casey reclined dreamily upon a sofa, his short, crooked legs crossed, his gnarled hands clasped behind his head. "Best ball club I ever had," he kept repeating softly, as though he liked the sound of the words. Last week, at the season's halfway mark, his New York Yankees were leading the American League by six games...