Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Death haunted the skies of Japan last week. Near towering Mount Fuji, a British Overseas Airways' Boeing 707 fell from the sky, killing all 124 persons on board. Only the day before, a Canadian Pacific DC-8 crashed while landing in heavy fog at Tokyo Airport, killing the ten-member crew and all but eight of the 62 passengers. This total of 188 in less than 24 hours made it, as far as anyone could remember, the darkest single day in the history of commercial aviation...
...Daddy can be trying. He keeps a lemon-blonde lollipop of a mistress around the place, and sometimes gives her a lick, right in front of Mommy. Since they are all unloving and unloved, no one is hurt. But the pomposities of the dialogue can be pretty wounding: "The sky is pocked with stars," "I've spent two years on every street in hell...
Until 5:30 the next morning he stays on the alert for clouds that might obscure the image on his photographic plate or for a sudden movement that could blur it. He nurses his equipment fastidiously as the world's largest telescope swings slowly across the sky, tracking the elusive targets that astronomers call quasars. They are the most distant objects ever seen...
...light-year is the distance that light, at a speed of 186,000 miles per second, travels in a year: about 6 trillion miles. * "3C" stands for the Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources. The other numbers designated each source's position in the sky...
Immediately after World War II, astronomers all over the world hastened to build steel-ribbed parabolic dishes and ungainly rows of spindly antenna arrays. They even lined a small valley with wire mesh and began to scan the skies for radio sources. These pioneer radio astronomers scanning the sky "saw" only blotchy, vague shapes-like street lights dimly seen through...