Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, 100 years later to the day, 17,000 people gathered under a leaden sky at the Appomattox Court House to witness the centennial commemoration...
This strategy has many technical points in its favor, and it may have special appeal to the propaganda-geared Russians. The orbiting space platform will be highly visible; after the sun and the moon, it may be the most conspicuous thing in the sky. For years while the Russians reach for the moon, their busy platform will impress billions of people on the earth below...
Wednesday morning the sky clouded and cleared in easy rhythm. The black around the Jackson St. Church, dark and scrawny the day before, was fat with happy humanity. De Lawd had called and everyone had come--the old wrinkled women, the young, prim schoolgirls, the respected morticians, and the baggy-eyed drunks. Brightly painted umbrellas twirled in the foggy sunlight as on each doorstep a preacher stood and taught nonviolence and the ways of peace...
...sky blackened and rain began falling straight down, too heavy now to be shifted by the wind. White onlookers retreated from the curbs and onto nearly porches. Most chewed gum, spitting angrily every few minutes. A few tried to laugh, but ridicule didn't work in this weather and most chose silence...
...bridge, was a phalanx of 60 state cops, headed by Colonel Al Lingo, an old crony of George Wallace's and a segregationist of the Governor's own stripe. The troopers stood three-deep across all four lanes of the highway. They wore dark blue shirts, sky-blue hard hats, carried billy clubs, sidearms and gas masks. On the sidelines were Sheriff Clark's possemen, both on horseback and afoot, ready, willing and eager for trouble...