Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Iron Man") Avery, Palmer said sadly: "Well, Iron Man, we lost the tournament there." The caddie shook his head. "We ain't lost nothin', Mr. Arnold," said Iron Man. "We still got eight more holes to play." (Recalled Avery later: "He just look up at the sky like he is wishing for some miracle to come down...
...pictiars." "Not only were the bicycles going quicker and ringing sharper bells, but the people with the preoccupied faces were walking brisker, the smoke from the strange houses blew faster, and even the town clouds, brown at the edges from smuts and sophistication, raced swifter over a man-made sky...
...million square miles and extends almost halfway around the earth. Its inhabitants hunt goats in fern-forested Kauai. and missile nose cones in the sleepy lagoon of Eniwetok. It is the habitat of strange "birds" with peculiar names-Samos, Discoverer. Midas, Nike-Zeus-whose flights are scratched across the sky in weird contrails and tracked by missile-watching machines on a California mud flat and in such far-flung outposts as Alaska, Hawaii, Kwajalein and Christmas Island. The PMR-for Pacific Missile Range-is the nation's largest testing and training ground for missiles and space apparatus...
...Great American Desert shrinks beneath the vast sky like a tiny golden prayer rug in a blue tremendous temple, and as the little black dart leaps gleaming into outer darkness the mind thrills at a vision of the supernal machine...
...Pala is at least as explorable as Herman Melville's Typee and more believable than Samuel Butler's Erewhon. But a novelist who writes about erewhon goes against his Serutan. which, as all the world knows, is nature's spelled backwards. Pie in the sky, however deep dish. is never as fascinating as the hard crust of the satirist...