Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only ones.' a woman retorted. 'If there were more kopeks in the kolkhoz, we would not have to go to the forest for mushrooms.' 'But where are we going to get these kopeks?' asked Mysovsky. 'You think they fall from the sky...
Happy, Not Mighty. Unlike most other new Asian leaders, Abdul Rahman is no rabid nationalist. He has remained on close, friendly terms with the British, has no interest in pie-in-the-sky economic schemes. His political aims are simple: "Food instead of bullets, clothing instead of uniforms, houses instead of barracks.'' His new nation has a combat army of only seven battalions and an air force so small that the pilots often have trouble finding a fourth for bridge. "My ambition is not mighty Malaysia," says Abdul Rahman, "but happy Malaysia...
...German Biblical Critic Rudolf Bultmann, Robinson regards the virgin birth and the heaven-above-hell-below framework of Scripture as religious myths; he argues that the essential Gospel message must be "demythologized" by liberating it from antiquated supernatural language. Rejecting the Biblical image of a transcendent God in the sky, Robinson suggests that Christians think of God the way Existentialist Theologian Paul Tillich does: as the "ground of all being...
Seen through the finest optical telescopes, the five nondescript points in the sky looked like ordinary stars. To radio astronomers though, they sounded uncommonly noisy. For some strange reason they were all exceptionally powerful radio transmitters-electronic extroverts among the quiet billions of other stars that keep almost perfect radio silence...
...report to the feeble brain only those visual items that are important to a frog's wellbeing. When a cloud drifts slowly over the sun, a frog's eyes do not bother the brain with the meaningless event. But when a bird swoops down, suddenly darkening the sky, special cells in the eyes cry alarm, and the frog plops hastily into the water. Other eye cells report the presence of the small moving objects that usually turn out to be insects-but only when the insects are close enough for the frog to have a chance of catching...