Word: clouding
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...through the Government departments there are so many niggers it's like a black cloud all around...
Flak was spotty. Fighter opposition-on some raids at least-was weak. But weather was playing the enemy's game. On one raid the cloud cover was so thick that B-29 men could hardly see beyond their wingtips as they nervously watched ice thickening on the leading edges. Soupy fog kept navigators and bombardiers on instruments. After one raid more than 70 Superforts had to make emergency landings on Iwo.*But the planes drilled through, and reported the clouds over one city glowing "like a hot plate" from the flames below...
...troops down here to start work. But instead I asked for the loan of you chaps, and you arrive the next day in two little trucks. The next thing I know you have hired all the natives with two arms and two feet for miles around and a big cloud of dust rises over the field and when it settles three weeks later . . . there I see my runway! God, do you wonder I love...
...muscular prose. Said Hugo La Fayette Black: "The Williamses have been convicted under a statute so uncertain in its application that not even the most learned member of the bar could have advised them in advance as to whether their conduct would violate the law. . . . [This] will cast a cloud over the lives of countless . . . divorced persons...
...life (The General; The Ship). The Hornblower series has made him one of the most popular adventure writers alive, ("I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," said Ernest Hemingway.) Readers of Commodore Hornblower will find it built on the same lines as its predecessors: its topmast in a cloud of fantastic thrills, its keel afloat in Royal Navy lore...