Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...damp and chilling. Overhead, leaden black clouds were pushed across the sky by a gusty wind. The snow on the street was flecked with coal dust and dirt. It was melting slowly, producing desolate puddles of cold water...
...France: unity against the Communists. As a result of unity, there was victory. Future battles might have different outcomes, but in this one, at least, France had beaten the "Cocos." One night in Paris, where electric current was on again, two powerful searchlights made a giant V in the sky. Actually this show was for the late wartime hero, General Jacques Leclerc (TIME, Dec. 8), whose body lay in Notre Dame. But many Parisians saw it as a symbol of triumph over a newer enemy...
...high noon on May 10, 1940-the day Hitler's Panzer divisions began their drive toward France-from the cloudless sky over ancient Freiburg a thin drone insisted. The burghers were not alarmed. They glanced skyward, expecting to watch another Luftwaffe observation plane drift toward the French border ten miles to the west. Instead, they saw a formation of planes, sweeping in at great altitude from the north. Seconds later, the burghers and their women and children ran for cover, shrieking. Terror bombing of undefended cities on the western front had begun...
Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, announced yesterday that his station in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, had just recorded a comet described as the brightest since the discovery of Haley's comet in 1910. Sky-minded newspapers in South Africa and New Zealand had reported spotting the comet on Wednesday...
Local observes can glimpse this latest celestial phenomenon, which has a tail 25 degrees long, within the next few nights, possibly with the naked eyes. Those going comet-hunting for the first time should look into the sky just after sunset to the left of the area where the sun sets...