Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...F.L.N." Grinned Colonel Boumedienne: "That won't make the Americans happy." Contagious Guns. While the tribesmen roasted an entire sheep on a spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth on the plain below, rising in their saddles to fire their flintlocks in unison at the sky. The contagion spread to the F.L.N. troops on the ridges and crests. and for 20 minutes gunshots echoed in the hills. Moslem children burst into tears and some of the guests looked nervously toward the border, fearing the French might respond by firing in earnest. But French guns remained silent...
...separate two points at that height, McNamara argued, would require a radar screen 15 ft. wide and 15 ft. high. By the late '60s, McNamara feels that the job of reconnaissance could be done by advanced versions of the Samos spy-in-the-sky satellite...
Another cause of minor friction was the happy Italian custom of shooting birds out of the sky with the nearest available firearm. Horrified German matrons pleaded for peace in the name of European unity, and most Italians reluctantly agreed. German mothers, who call the Italians "macaronis," would be happy to see the Roman romantics go. Not so their fun-loving daughters, who are even willing to pay for the drinks of their newfound cha-cha-cha partners. "It's worth it," said one Teutonic lovely: "You don't find Germans who can catch that rhythm...
...church, cardinals are, as they should be, men of awe, whom Pope John last year compared to the marvelous wheels in the sky seen by the prophet Ezekiel. The Princes of the Church, he said, are men who "move around the throne of the most highest, who have no concern except for his glory, except to carry forward his fiery chariot, who when they touch the earth transform it with the ardor of their charity...
...conceal such defects, Director Minnelli pours on the martial music and the Metrocolor. When war is declared, the screen turns such a bright blood red that for about half an hour afterward everything looks green. And the Four Horsemen-the Biblical war, pestilence, death and conquest-gallop across the sky at intervals like a belly-clenching commercial for stomach pills...