Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were playing a last few rounds of cards, the grinding sound disturbed the game. Several of the players wandered out into the freezing night to take a look. "We hit an iceberg--there it is," somebody said. As the players looked toward the rear, they could see a dark mountain of ice receding into the distance. They went back to their game, and the ship sailed majestically...
...dominates a meeting with three extraordinary tools: eyes, hands and voice. The eyes go into action first. They are an intense dark brown. During conversation they will lock onto a listener and not let go until the listener gives some sign of acknowledgment, agreement--or flinches. The eyes are neither harsh nor kind. They are big and strong, and sometimes quick...
...Clemens' view, the discovery indicates that at least some dinosaur species were not sensitive tropic dwellers but were able to survive through chilly and dark Arctic winters lasting from November to February. That theory tends to undermine the currently popular asteroid version of the apocalypse. According to that model, all dinosaurs perished when an asteroid or comet collided with the earth and tossed obscuring dust into the air, blocking sunlight and lowering ground temperatures. Clemens counters that dinosaurs living up north would hardly have noticed the difference, let alone be wiped out. Says he: "It doesn't matter if your...
...street fighter in Falwell still shows through. Six feet tall, a big man with a waistline that rides over his belt, he walks right up to anti- Falwell demonstrators and pumps their hands. He usually wears dark suits and shoes and always carries a Bible. His deep, booming voice dominates all encounters. Up every morning at 6 after only five hours' sleep, he reads from Scripture for about an hour. Falwell does no exercise, watches little television except for boxing and TV news and spends hours on the phone. He has a surface knowledge of history, philosophy and even...
...Chicago, the course put the contestants in nine-tenths of a mile of Lake Michigan, and had them biking 24.8 miles and running 6.2. The race was to start at 7:30 a.m., but the tick-tick-tick of the ten-speeds had already started in the dark two hours before angry black clouds roiled over the city's big shoulder, releasing heavy rains twice...