Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole first four miles and left everybody in the dust," he recalls. "Assistant Coach Peter Lansbury yelled, 'Wow, did you see Yifter run?' in reference to the Ethiopian sprinter Miruts Yifter who won the 5000 and 10,000 meters in the Olympics that summer. He is a small, dark-complexioned guy, too. to this day half the people I know introduce me as Yifter...
Sweeping down from low, dark clouds, the giant U.S. Air Force Galaxy transport rumbled to a landing at Greenham Common air-base in Britain. It was bearing a historic and controversial cargo: the first cruise missile launchers (minus as yet their nuclear warheads and missiles) to arrive in Western Europe under NATO'S 1979 "two track" decision. That policy asserted that NATO would begin modernizing the alliance's nuclear armory by the end of this year if the U.S. and the Soviet Union do not reach an agreement to curb intermediate-range nuclear weapons. For a moment after...
...script formally presented last week at a scientific conference in Washington. To the applause of disarmament enthusiasts, who promptly predicted that many new adherents will now be won over to their cause, the blue-chip conference posited catastrophe for a reason few had imagined: a pitch-dark, bone-chilling "nuclear winter" brought on by the detonation of even less than half the megatonnage in U.S. and Soviet arsenals. The new study, says Randall Kehler, national coordinator of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, "cannot be written off as the rhetoric of antinuke activists...
...best, Ehrlich figures, small bands of hunters and gatherers would be left in the Southern Hemisphere. And life would have difficulty renewing itself even after the dark and cold lifted, because most of the protective layer of ozone in the upper atmosphere would have been burned off. Killer ultraviolet radiation would stream in from the sun, paralyzing even phytoplankton, the one-celled ocean plants that form the base of the ocean's food chain. The effects would be less ghastly-but still catastrophic-if fewer megatons were exploded...
...Night Mother" director, Tom Moore, set designer Heidi Landesman, and lighting designer James F. Ingalls will also collaborate on the production of "Traveler in the Dark...