Word: clouding
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...life is a prelude to the possible disaster which may lurk around any approaching corner. By sad experience he now knows there is always an examination or some other cruel testing period impending which will inscribe an icy circle around his moon or draw a thick cloud over his sunset. Life for him does not strike with fury or with the suddenness of lightning. There is no swift piercing of the heart by savage arrow. Rather it is a slow process, cumulative, ponderous, relentless...
...thinks the doctor's instruments will, in effect, wreck any chance for its [marital relationship's] survival. That is not true. In the majority of cases, any potency and libido which had existed are more than likely to return. . . . Don't let ignorance and fear cloud the golden hours of your Indian summer...
...believe that a kidnapping could occur in present-day France. Petit Parisien headlined its story: "American Dancer Runs Away and Tries to Extort Money from Aunt." French police were not entirely remiss, however. The mysterious Bobby was suspected of being an habitue of the Pavilion Bleu at St. Cloud. Night & day detectives watched the Pavilion Bleu, abandoned their vigil only when wreckers arrived and tore it down...
...other events followed. On November 29 the body of one Raymond Lesobre, real-estate agent, was found in an empty villa in St. Cloud, shot through the back of his head. In his pocket was the visiting card of "Herr Schott." Among people mysteriously missing in recent weeks was a young German, Arthur Frommer, who had an uncle named Schott. Aroused at last, secret police agents traced Uncle Schott to Nice. He had no recollection of giving any visiting cards to his nephew, but did remember giving his card to a plausible young German named Eugene George Weidmann. Eugene George...
...Deserted on the eve of bearing his twins, she greeted him three years later as though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began to cloud her statesmanship. It is his sober opinion that she helped Antony's defeat at Actium because she feared that victory would result in his going off with a younger woman...