Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with protective wraparound glass. The weather, however, was less forthcoming. A violent thunderstorm caused abandonment of the service due to the threat of lightning. (A day earlier, in San Antonio, where the Pope was scheduled to celebrate a Mass on Sunday, winds toppled two twelve-story towers behind his outdoor altar...
...followed by a rousing youth festival, where 50,000 onlookers brandished blue and green flash cards and roared as John Paul attempted to don a gaudy Mardi Gras mask. "I love it," gushed twelve-year- old Kim Harrigan of Port Sulfur, La. John Paul then traveled to an outdoor Mass; some 200,000 rain-drenched worshipers attended...
...trip to Nicaragua, and the Secretary of Transportation had Sunday afternoon to herself. She left their Watergate apartment and drove to the National Cathedral. After pacing the quiet grounds, she headed for the chapel where she and Dole were married 13 years ago. Sitting on an outdoor bench, she reflected on her marriage and her career. "I couldn't help thinking back over the years, and all the experiences and joys," she recalls, a wistful tone creeping into her honeyed Southern accent. "This is a time now when, you know, I have to really come to that . . ." She trails...
...worries range from natural calamities to man-made disasters. Fretting over the possibility of bad weather in Miami, organizers scheduled the Pope's outdoor Mass there during the morning, when showers are least likely. City officials in Los Angeles, contemplating the nightmarish prospect of the Holy Father's being trapped in his Popemobile in the city's snail-like traffic, ordered up a helicopter. "Even God can't negotiate the freeways," acknowledged Robert Spann, coordinator of the papal visit for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. In San Antonio, heat is a big concern; after planners of the outdoor Mass...
...twig-bundle brooms, faded red signs proclaiming VICTORY TO COMMUNISM. But beneath the capital's seedy, socialist exterior there is an unaccustomed hum of excitement. Passersby pore over posted copies of Moscow News, marveling at articles on (gasp!) official corruption and incompetence. Once banned abstract paintings hang at an outdoor Sunday art fair. In public parks and private living rooms, families plan futures that many believe will be better, richer, freer than ever before. To the delight of many Soviet citizens -- and the dismay of others -- their country is in the midst of its most dramatic transformation since the days...