Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the tall arched windows of the Great Kremlin Hall, rain squalls chased the spring sunbeams across Moscow's sky. Inside, the 1,378 members of what passes for the Soviet Union's parliament sat tense and expectant at long rows of neat desks. Diplomats, newsmen, and a delegation from Ghana stared down from packed galleries. At the tribune hunched the familiar, round, shiny-pated figure of Nikita Khrushchev. His voice was strident and bitter. Gone was the bland old bluster about "peace and friendship," as the Soviet boss, in we-will-bury-you language, denounced...
Many an airline passenger has tensed uneasily as lightning streaked the sky and the eerie blue glow of static electricity outlined the wing tips and propellers. Yet airmen have considered static electricity aloft relatively harmless. Now and then, lightning may blow out radio equipment or burn small holes in aircraft skin sections, but there are no recorded cases of major damage. Discharge of static electricity, named St. Elmo's fire by mariners of the Middle Ages, who thought the phenomenon a good omen from their patron saint, is considered no danger at all. When a plane flies through stormy...
...first came upon the scene during one of his evening rambles about the London suburb of Richmond, the youngster was entranced. There was a dark lane leading through weathered buildings to the Thames. Paul sketched it a few times, finally painted it when the streets were wet and the sky leaden. At Easter, when his father, an art teacher, was packing up some of his own canvases for the annual Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Art in London, he suggested that Paul send in something too, and Paul chose Water Lane, Richmond. "Have a bash." his father said...
...himself with hand-picked bodyguards, and rarely ventured forth. And though he courageously continued to denounce the corruption and brutality of the Rhee regime, many mem bers of Chang's own party were disappointed by the defeatist line ("I stand before you a lone duck in the autumn sky") that he took during his unsuccessful bid for re-election earlier this year. Last week, as Koreans asked why Chang had stayed silent and at home during the Seoul riots, his friends explained: "He would have liked to have been out in the streets to lead the students...
...special midnight Mass. Out of bed after four hours of sleep, he raised a flag over the new capital, attended a joint session of Congress (where the air conditioning failed), watched a parade of 5,000 troops and 10,000 workers as 38 tons of fireworks lit the sky...