Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rubble-filled lots dot the landscape. Lacking the money to restore all of the city's splendid buildings and monuments, painters have recreated some of the original structures on plain walls, complete with stairs and windows. The bright colors of the fake buildings create the atmosphere of an outdoor circus or the set for a play...
Takeoff was from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. It was perilously near the wind-chill factor of 65° F below -the point at which ground crews are excused from outdoor maintenance. Seven BUFFS and three KC-135 tankers were scheduled to roar aloft at 7 a.m., just as 390 other Strategic Air Command planes took the air, in less than ten minutes, from 69 other bases in the continental U.S. and Guam. The mission: a simulated launch in the face of a Soviet missile attack, part of a readiness exercise called Global Shield. It was the biggest...
...city was devastated by mortar and automatic weapons duels. Sunlight leaks through bullet holes in the roof over an outdoor bar at the Hotel Chadian, as guests sip drinks beside an empty swimming pool. Traffic winds slowly through the rubble-strewn commercial district along Charles de Gaulle Avenue, where office buildings and foreign embassies were not so much blasted apart by heavy shelling as nibbled to bits by machine-gun fire. The most macabre reminder of the fighting is scattered along several hundred yards of a dried-up stream bed behind Habré's former headquarters: clumps of human...
...Asian history and his untiring willingness to belt out Polish folk songs on a handheld mike and dance with kindergartners at a Tokyo youth rally. In Nagasaki, the historic center of Japanese Catholicism, the crowds were larger: 47,000 stoically endured a freak February blizzard to attend an outdoor Mass. Eventually more than 300 people had to be taken to first-aid stations because they were suffering from exposure to the cold and wet snow...
John Paul left Nagasaki with the new Japanese nickname of Yuki Otoko (Snowman) and flew to equally chilly Anchor age, where he celebrated an outdoor Mass and took a 90-ft. fling at driving a sled drawn by nine rambunctious huskies. "This was great," said the Pontiff. Then off again, up over the North Pole and back to Rome. To the faithful who braved the Nagasaki blizzard, John Paul had said good-naturedly, "It's good for the faith." So, apparently, was the taxing 20,500-mile journey by the most traveled Pope in history...