Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent night in the village of Da Loc, in the Mekong Delta, seven civilians lay quietly in the mud. Cold rain dripped down their necks from the leaves of banana trees overhead. Suddenly, they spotted more than 20 black-pajama-clad figures creeping across the ripening paddies. At close range, the ragtag villagers opened fire with ancient rifles and M-l carbines. The Viet Cong attackers fled swiftly, leaving behind four dead and a prized Browning automatic rifle...
...wait, told to douse their cigarettes and keep the chatter down. Invariably, they are disappointed by the cramped studios, the tawdry sets, the cameras and microphones that block their view. Scrunched into their seats with their Macy's shopping bags, surrounded by strangers, discomfited in the glare of overhead floodlights, studio audiences radiate a mood that is, as Mike Douglas puts it, "instant chill time...
...morning tour bus drove through a gate in the miles of barbed wire fence surrounding Dow's plant, 4500 acres of land. "The largest industrial complex in the country within one fence." 700 smoking buildings. Miles of ground-level piping. Miles of overhead piping. Hundreds of vats, some of them 40 feet in diameter with a soupy green liquid bubbling inside...
There was no warning, beyond ominous arcs of green flares overhead. In Mexico City's Plaza of the Three Cultures, a student speaker had urged his 6,000 listeners to "please go home after this meeting is over. We do not believe in useless bloodshed." Suddenly, from one corner of the plaza, the troops appeared. They formed a cordon around the crowd and moved in - shooting and bayoneting as they went...
...insist that 3 Sisters does not march. It is not a murder mystery, although someone is murdered. No one is apprehended, nothing is resolved. The final statements are made in silence.)...involve us in seeing the moments. You will find that as the black magic and deathly wonders slide overhead, the characters are nevertheless human...