Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trees lose their flowers. Their leaves fall. Their bare branches stretch up to the sky begging for water . . . The sun goes on, day after day, from east to west, scorching relentlessly. The earth cracks up and deep fissures open their gaping mouths; but there is no water-only the shimmering haze at noon making mirage lakes of quicksilver . . . The sun makes an ally of the breeze. It heats the air till it becomes the loo and then sends it on its errand. Even in the intense heat, the loo's warm caresses are sensuous and pleasant. It brings...
...little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky drew closer for ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck, 66, now tending his manifold private interests in Seattle. The State Supreme Court of Washington upheld his conviction for pocketing $1,900 from the sale of a used Cadillac that was owned by the trusting Teamsters...
...guidance. Early in World War II, Draper became convinced that bombsights could be made enormously more accurate by stabilizing them with improved gyroscopes. When long-range missiles came into the picture after the war, Draper and his M.I.T. group began developing gyroscopic instruments to steer the rockets through the sky...
...grizzly montage called Capt Canaveral. But the show also has surprises of another sort. A 24-year-old Englishman named Anthony Magar has used burned and stained wood, stitched canvas and pounded metal to create a big picture that is as pleasing as an autumn landscape seen from the sky...
...people Spratling writes about flourished in their amiable fashion between 200 B.C. and the 7th century. Like their neighbors, they worshiped the great god Quetzalcoatl, "Precious Serpent," the lord of wind and sky. And they created in red clay their share of legendary jaguars, frogs, bats and monsters, as well as an array of dolls, whistles and little animals on wheels. But legends and gods, or even toys, were never their primary concern. No people have ever seemed quite so determined to record themselves in the joyful act of just being alive...