Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...village of Dhankeal, near Lahore. Mystère jets of the Indian air force slammed rockets into a train at the station, killing three passengers and wounding eleven. Wakened by the explosions, a young peasant named Zakaullah clambered to the roof of his mud hut. "I saw planes in the sky," he said. "And suddenly they started throwing things with fire coming from them. Then one plane started to fall. It came down with a big noise...
...Contest. Dewa and Chhamb were swiftly captured by the armored column, which rolled forward some eight miles against light resistance and halted by the banks of the shallow Munawar Tawi River. The Indian counterattack came from the sky-28 British-made Vampire jets bombed and strafed the armored force, destroying an estimated ten tanks before Pakistani supersonic F-86 Sabres streaked to the rescue. It was no contest: four of the slower Indian planes were shot down, and the rest scattered...
...nearly 5 o'clock. Technician Oskar Anthamatten worked on the balky engine of a bulldozer. In the canteen a dozen men drank beer and munched sandwiches. Some 50 others were still in the barracks, resting up for the night shift. Suddenly there was a dull groan from the sky. Glancing up, Roosma saw a long chunk of the curling lip of the glacier break off and begin to slide down the cliff, slowly at first and then in a quickening whirl of ice and rock and snow...
...people love to speak bleakly of Gordian gluts that move like glaciers, of an ever-rising tide of blood on the roads, of a dark future in which cars multiply until they plate the nation's surface with two-ton steel locusts belching exhaust fumes that turn the sky shroud-grey. Any one man's traffic experience on a bad day can make it seem that the U.S. is well on its way to hell on wheels, that the nation faces an infinite problem. But a different experience, such as speeding through a rainy night on a broad...
...miles out in space. On the fourth day, Conrad's 20/15 vision picked out the contrails of planes flying below, the streets of Jacksonville, and the wake of a ship off the coast of Florida. He also took pictures of the landscape, including Cuba. Spy in the sky? "Just scenic shots," said Conrad dryly...