Word: clouding
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Ball's team discovered the compounds in a cloud near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. "We are slowly getting hints of the chemistry of interstellar space clouds," he said...
Simplistic Solutions. Agnew's blunderbuss assaults on "radical liberals" have infuriated thoughtful moderates. New York's Mayor John Lindsay, who split with his party to back Democrat Arthur Goldberg against Nelson Rockefeller, observed last week that the 1970 campaign "has spread a cloud of suspicion and mistrust over our whole nation." He added: "Men with great power and high office make headlines that stir fears rather than rally hopes. They have charged that opposition to their policies somehow is an incitement to unrest and violence. That charge is incredible...
During his first four months in office, many Britons wondered whether the Prime Minister would ever start anything. He seemed to spend so much of his time sailing his yacht, Morning Cloud, that a cartoonist showed him asking a bobby...
...life in the clouds is as widespread as Parker suspects, biologists will have whole new ecological possibilities to explore. Clouds may well spread disease, for example, by harboring harmful viruses or bacteria. On the other hand, organisms that thrive on the ingredients of smog and smoke could help in the fight against air pollution. Introduced into clouds, they would feed on the undesirable gases and particles, thus converting pollution into harmless cloud creatures...
...been trod before, but with his stylistic gift-a broad sense of satire wedded to an acute political intelligence-Wills makes even his recapitulations entertaining. Wills goes spelunking into Nixon's Whittier prehistory and there finds Frank Nixon, his father, "gloomy and argumentative, black Irishman moving in cloud, with frequent lightnings out of it." His late mother, Wills reports, displayed a "colored photo-portrait of Richard, which was, when one threw the switch, lit electrically from behind like a hamburger king's." There is some truth but also a certain theatrical silliness in Wills' conclusion: "Nixon...