Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waterproof." Probably no less revolutionary-looking crowd ever assembled under Red banners. Watching the listless demonstrators, one could be sure that their incapacity for revolution was exceeded only by their disinterest in it. Their mood was as grey as the overcast sky above. When a thin drizzle of rain fell, hundreds ran for shelter. Cracked a German onlooker: "Ah! These revolutionaries are not waterproof!" As a mass they resembled nothing bolder than a crowd at a railroad station waiting for a late train. They stood in idle little groups, talking over personal, non-political problems: "Emmie, have you no idea...
...back. One such reject hanging over her mantel shows a sunset above a Western canyon, with a log cabin in the foreground. "What one likes," says Grandma philosophically, "another don't." Another of her favorite rejects is a storm scene, with black clouds lowering in a pink sky. "Dr. Kallir [one of her dealers] wants me to change it. He don't like pink. He just hasn't seen the sky like that, but up here we see it pink...
After reading your article [TIME, Aug. 9] concerning turbojet engines with speeds to Mach 4 and plus (enabling a pilot to lunch in New York and then fly to Honolulu to breakfast on the same day), I am prepared to give ground (or sky) to the future "zoomies." As a former Navy fighter pilot I had heretofore considered our navigation and power plant problems more difficult than would be our successors' with their simple jet engines and new navigational aids. [But] the pilot of the future will need a chronometer that runs backwards and is inscribed Yesterday, Today...
...Miracle." That night, under a starlit sky, the crowds shuffled nervously about the gate of Maria's house. She appeared to them on her balcony. She wanted to die, she said, in the presence of the faithful. Somewhat later, the tinkle of a little silver bell in the darkness announced the passage of the village priest coming to perform the last rites of the church for Maria. Near midnight a cry went up: "She's sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice...
...According to the historian Eusebius, in 312 A.D. the Emperor Constantine saw a flaming cross and the legend, in Greek, "By this conquer," in the noonday sky near Rome. It is said to have led to his conversion to Christianity...