Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corridors, intoning at intervals. "The library is closing in 10 minutes...the library is closing in 10 minutes." Jack started panicking--he'd counted on his dead-end row of carrels being dark, but a graduate student was still engrossed in work four carrels away, and there was an overhead light that stayed obstinately on with no switch in sight. Time moved at a crawl, especially since he had incautiously put his head down directly on top of his watchband...
...closing time proper, the library noises had subsided to occasional clicks and footsteps as guards walked through the corridors snapping off stray lights. At 10:21, all the overhead lights went off at once--evidently, to Jack and Jill's relief, controlled by a central switch. No one had come within two bookcases of them...
...EYED from staring at microfilm, I got home and turned on the TV to watch "the second day of racial unrest in Miami." The crowds of Blacks protesting the killing of Johnson had been largely dispersed. Men wearing gas masks ran around with rifles, lobbing gas grenades. Helicopters circled overhead. A convoy of jeeps rolled down the street. The Newsface came on and reported. "President Reagan said today that there is no room for violence in the streets of America." You could picture him saying the words. It was almost funny...
...crowd of 100 impromptu guerrillas, the cry went up: "Let's go to the Interstate! Let's go to the Interstate!" The young blacks jogged toward Interstate 95, but Miami police cut them off, firing bullets overhead and tear gas. Some rioters made it to the expressway anyway. As they threw stones at panicked motorists, other blacks frantically tried to warn drivers away from the assault zone...
...missile testing. The most important of these installations, by far, is at Pine Gap, a desolate sprawling base in central Australia, twelve miles from fabled Alice Springs, that employs some 250 Americans. The supersecret station helps pinpoint potential Soviet military targets and collects information from U.S. spy satellites orbiting overhead...