Word: cloudlessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cloudless spring morning, among boarded-up row houses in North Philadelphia, the asphalt school yard at Wright Elementary is a blur of arriving children, many in uniforms getting a bit too tight and too short as the year draws to a close. Glasses propped on top of her head, hand on a child's shoulder, Wright's motherly principal, Anita Duke, rolls a rickety cart with a microphone and speaker into the yard for the morning announcements and starts another day. It's Duke's 29th year working in Philadelphia's public schools, her sixth at Wright...
After a 15-minute ascent in the cramped six-person plane, the pilot levels off at 10,000 feet and looks for a two-mile stretch of cloudless sky through which Noonan can jump. When suitable sky is located, a professional skydiving instructor attaches himself to Noonan’s back with a network of straps and four metal clamps strong enough to tow a car. When Noonan says he’s ready, the instructor leans off the edge—and down they...
...After this first elimination round I was still left with quite a bit of reading. So I gathered an armful of books and, bearlike, climbed out of the chamber and squinted at the cloudless sky. Seating myself by the pool I began to read comix while, in a sad echo of my entire life, twenty or so frolicsome teenagers splashed about and engaged in healthy socializing and sexualized horseplay. Retiring to my less distracting room, I discovered several good books that had passed under my radar...
...severely stunted corn, Roberts, 67, says, "You're looking at a sad man." Stalks that should be 12 ft. high are less than 3 ft. In the next field over, a handful of tiny, withered sorghum plants--the only ones that grew--fight an obviously losing battle against cloudless skies...
With the comfortable temperature and cloudless night Harvard’s streak of good weather at major outdoor events began anew after it was snapped by torrential rains at last June’s commencement...