91.   As he spoke, a Russian plane roared unseen overhead and delivered a bomb strike through thick clouds on the center of Alkhan-Yurt, two miles away.

92.   As the walls crumbled in a thick cloud of dust, a band played patriotic music.

93.   Burning brush from suburbs north of Athens sent a thick black cloud over the capital, making it difficult to breathe.

94.   Burning brush sent a thick black cloud over countryside, covering the capital.

95.   But there was thick cloud cover in the area that would appear to hamper airstrikes.

96.   Defying thick clouds, warplanes roared overhead and pelted this town southwest of the Chechen capital with bombs after a night of low-altitude airstrike throughout the area.

97.   Emission controls are nonexistent, and city buses, trucks and even canal boats spew thick toxic clouds of black exhaust fumes.

98.   Fast attack boats cruised into the zone, firing Taiwanese-made Brave Wind missiles which roared through the air and left a thick cloud of brownish yellow smoke.

99.   Forecasters, meanwhile, were becoming increasingly optimistic after earlier concerns about thick clouds.

100.   Forecasters worried thick clouds could interfere, though optimism was growing.