Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enormous, fiery blast broke out from under its fins. For a fraction of a second, the rocket hesitated. For another fraction it rose slowly. Then it rose like a streak, as if an irresistible force had picked it off the earth and tossed it into the sky. Behind it trailed a jet stream mixed with white dashes of visible sound waves. A gigantic roar rolled across the desert, rolled back from the steep Organ Mountains that stand over White Sands...
Paraphrase the Weather. In The Primitive, the author is betrayed by his subject. Feikema wrote in his earlier books of the natural elements, and Nature was adequate to absorb his emotions and his song. He was always likable and often convincing when he described the earth and sky and the changing seasons or paraphrased the weather report out in Sioux-land. When he writes of the intellectual life of Christian College, he is seldom as likable and never convincing. At best, he doggedly describes freshman themes, the lectures and the changing curricula. At worst, he peevishly rehearses "the arid...
Perched on orange-colored canvas chairs atop fern-scented Mount Ammouda, smiling King Paul of the Hellenes, grim U.S. General James Van Fleet and several Greek army commanders awaited the signal for the attack. At daybreak, newly arrived U.S.-made Helldivers cut across the pale blue sky to unload their cargo of Napalm fire bombs. In a few minutes, the sleepy purple mountains seemed ablaze. At week's end, King Paul and his party could celebrate a smashing victory...
...first, in Hollywood's golden sky, it looked like a cloud no bigger than a publicity man's handout. But by last week it was a fat thunderhead of pressagentry that threatened to soak the U.S. right down to its grass roots. Paramount called it a "motion picture merchandising method...which sets a completely new standard in harnessing opinion-influencing power to film promotion...
...natural habitat groups." In the shadowy "North American Mammals" wing are windows overlooking a family of grizzly bears dining on ants in Yellowstone National Park, wolves loping after a deer by the glow of northern lights, bull moose fighting in a marsh, and Rocky Mountain goats scrambling sky-high along a cliff...