Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India's able Finance Minister Morarji Desai, austerity is a way of life. Not only is he a vegetarian and a teetotaler who fasts for a day and a half every week, but he is also a hardheaded fiscal conservative who derides pie-in-the-sky welfare schemes and is an ardent believer in pay-as-you-go financing. Last week Desai presented the Indian Parliament with an austerity budget that will put the entire nation on the Desai standard...
...world soaring championships, engines are just excess weight, and flying a conventional airplane is about as exciting as riding a subway to work. To the sailplaner, the good things in life are a cramped cockpit, a buoyant wing, the song of the wind, and unending miles of sky...
...record that has been verified by the sky-scanning radars of the North American Air Defense Command. While watching for unfriendly bombers and missiles. NORAD's sharp electronic eyes also spot every other high-flying metallic object that comes into range-including research spacecraft. NORAD has counted 273 man-made objects orbiting earth. Some are satellites, living or dead, but most are "garbage": the burned-out rockets, connecting rings, nose covers, and other bits and pieces that are abandoned after accompanying spacecraft into orbit. The oldest of these far-out travelers is Explorer I, launched...
...with Venus in perfect position for an easy encounter, Mariner I took off from Canaveral. For a while its Atlas climbed properly; then it began to yaw like a monstrous fish trying to shake a hook. All Canaveral watched in dismay as the great rocket snaked across the sky. The safety officer touched his destruct button, and the whole vehicle dissolved into a burst of orange flame and a shower of smoking shards...
...proper equipment simply means soaked, frozen feet and possibly pneumonia. A more frightening hazard in the aftermath of a winter storm is the falling of great chunks of snow and ice from rooftops and eves of University buildings. The only warning one may have of impending death from the sky is a cracking noise above and a flash of white...