Word: skies
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Until a few years ago, practically nothing could be done about a locust invasion. As the big insects migrated in swarms that darkened the sky, tree limbs cracked under their weight; with their voracious appetites, they consumed growing crops that would have fed millions. But Dr. Reginald Rainey and his colleagues of the Anti-locust Research Center have discovered that the movements of man's ancient enemy have an intimate connection with meteorology. Locusts need rain, and the desert vegetation that rain encourages, before they can breed into black swarms. When the desert bursts into sudden bloom, the locust...
...SKY FALLS (158 pp.)-Lorenzo Mazzettl-McKay...
...Arab world last week reeled in a delirium of joy. Damascus Radio repeatedly shrieked, "Ahlan Bil Wahda!" (Welcome to union). When Syrian soldiers sent bursts of tracer bullets streaking against the night sky, the radio announcer hastily told his excited listeners that it was not revolution but jubilation. THE DREAM HAS COME TRUE! headlined a Beirut paper. Aleppo nearly exploded: its main streets became a sea of screaming humanity, and cars inched along honking their horns to the rhythm...
...that Robinson was right in trying to find a new image of God that would appeal to those outside Christianity, but noted: "When the ordinary Christian speaks of God as being up there, he does not literally mean that God is in a place beyond the bright blue sky. He is putting in poetic language, which is the only serviceable language we have got. that God is supreme. It is utterly wrong and misleading to denounce imagery of God held by Christian men and women . . . and to say that we cannot have any new thought until it is all swept...
Even so, Joan is finicky about her scripts. Last year she turned down 15 movies. "I'm so particular about what I do, I may never work again," she says cheerily. This year, already in rehearsal as Gertrude Berg's daughter in Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling, she broke her contract and pulled out: "The part was wrong for me," she says. "I wasn't allowed to play it the way I felt I should. Then Gertrude Berg started saying 'But she doesn't look Jewish,' and I knew...