Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel and smell of spring were as definite as the fine odor of hot tar of highway repair jobs; in many areas the sky was bright blue and white clouds sat motionless as mashed potatoes on the horizon. Early bugs died on windshields on Connecticut's Merritt Parkway. Sunbathers gathered in tentative knots along Los Angeles beaches despite ocean fog. Across the Midwest, spring plowing went on day & night; tractors with headlights rumbled across fields after dark like one-eyed monsters. From coast to coast men pulled on high boots and went fishing...
...would cost to meet the unknown. Texas' shy, scholarly George Mahon, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee, made the point: "If war comes too soon we are appropriating too little. If we have miscalculated the dangers, if the threat of war is just a deceptive mirage on the horizon, we are appropriating too much...
...economic clouds just overhead had parted, but those on Britain's horizon were as threatening as ever. Last week the London Economist had some cogent points to make about taxation and the future of the welfare state...
...unidentified artists: scenes of camps and deserts, with the exquisite finish and the unearthliness of Dali's early work-a train of mules vanishing, single file, into the haze of the desert, ridden by grave, top-hatted emigrants; a mirage of tall minareted cities, floating on the horizon...
...instant, like heat lightning, an announcement dimly outlined a far horizon. There had been a shake-up in Soviet Russia's high command. The world was left to wonder about the details and the meaning of this dark, distant scene...