Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next day he awoke to feel the air hung with moisture. The sky seemed overweighted and ready to break. It reminded him of the time he had seen tears form in a woman's eyes. As he was drinking a glass of water at breakfast, the rains came. They not only came, they poured; first the grounds became wet, then drenched, then saturated. Leaves on the trees dripped sheepishly. People in the street turned up their coat collars, sprung umbrellas open, and began...
Like a divine enticement the sky ceased its outburst and lightened. Slowly the streets filled with a mob that increased its frantic, clamorous pace as it turned into Boylston Street and surged over the bridge. Above the turmoil hawkers cried about their display of feathers and tin footballs; the Salvation Army pleaded, and the ticket takers shouted a monotonous command...
Almost two quarters passed of play before the sky could no longer hold back its tears. They were first sobs, blown against the cheek by the wind. Small, individual parts of the mass buttoned coats, donned cellophane slickers, threw newspapers over their heads. The sobs became hysterical weeping, and water slashed upon the stands and upon twenty-two men playing like intent children with a pigskin...
...cases kept dueling at each other from behind splintered walls only a few yards apart. Chinese bombing raiders came over at 6 p.m., 6:07, 6:30, and 6:50. Japanese warships in the river, Japanese land batteries and Chinese artillery-all opened up in bedlam, streaking the evening sky with tracer bullets. Japanese aircraft, zooming up from a field the Chinese were bombing, got busy in mad efforts to save themselves and retaliate with as much damage to Chinese as possible, proceeded to fly over the neutral foreigners in the International Settlement with full cargoes of bombs, released these...
Indians good fellows. Leaving wives and Schildgen at home together with tomahawks and other Millertary equipment, Davisit Cambridge every year. Sun may shine, sky McLeod, but Hollingworth any weather friendship of John they enter his Gates and are happy if Feeleyve books and stop burning Campbell at both ends to play little game. Indians and Dilkes like theirs John likes. How much does he like them? You read how Hutchinsonday paper. If it Gibsony better idea before game, Huey say John 14, Indians...