Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the Boss dies, there is still plenty to do: a trip to Europe to wheedle Göring into revealing the hiding place of the priceless collections of stolen art; a dash back to the U.S. to watch the first atom bomb billow up in the New Mexico sky; a mission to Nürnberg to help convict the war criminals...
...almost two weeks, Chicago had been breaking out in a rash of cryptic signs: "KOVD." The letters were stenciled in red on Loop sidewalks. They flowered 10,000 feet overhead in sky writing and billboards showed them painted on a giant boxing glove. The city's Health Department was getting a message to Chicagoans: KNOCK OUT VENEREAL DISEASE...
...Albert Schweitzer faced the crouching semicircle around him like an indulgent grandfather playing a strange new game with the children. Though he refused to use English, he soon caught on to the rules. When they asked his interpreter to get him to pose against the rail with the city sky line behind him, Albert Schweitzer briskly nodded his grizzled head and grinned. "New York et moil" he said...
...gaudy carousel spun itself down onto the stage floor and suddenly, over the combined voices of 30 singers, a 75-piece orchestra and the world's biggest organ, brilliant explosions banged across the stage sky. For two minutes, while Leonidoff flailed his arms like a man rooting home a winning horse, the sky erupted rockets, pinwheels and aerial bombs...
Modified Raptures. Not everyone cheered. Some critics choked on his whimsy, and youngsters just out of college or World War I found their own spirit more faithfully mirrored in F. Scott Fitzgerald. But Morley's faithful coterie held tight to the illusion that a sky-high I.Q. and a sensitive nose for Culture were necessary to appreciate the Old Master's offerings. Readers shivered with delight at his rapid-fire quotations and laborious puns, and reverently slipcovered their autographed first editions. They looked the other way when Reviewer Harry Hansen told them that The Trojan Horse (1937) read...