Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glazer, who works in the East House kitchen, said that Mrs. Bunting's count of how many students cat there is wrong. "There are 250 eating in Cabot and another 100 in Whitman. Mrs. Bunting's figure of 250 eating in East House dining rooms just dropped from the sky." she said...
...fourth quarter, with both teams getting colder and the sky getting progressively darker, was not of the highest quality. Thomas narrowly missed a goal late in the period, losing out on a good save by Lowe, and Gomez had two fairly clear head shots that he missed a bit before that...
EARLIER in the week, a liquid-hydrogen fuel tank had sprung a leak and threatened to delay the launch. Now, less than an hour before the late-morning blastoff, dark clouds rolled ominously across the last patches of blue in the Florida sky; a drizzling rain turned into a heavy downpour that virtually blotted pad 39A from view. But NASA officials, buoyed by a long string of space successes, were undaunted by the dangerous omens. The order was given to proceed. More reliable than any commuter train, the 11:22 moon rocket departed from Cape Kennedy. It was on schedule...
...become a seasonal television favorite, something like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. As Capote's simple-minded cousin, Geraldine Page acts with unforced poignance. She is totally enveloped by the author's narration, which contains such passages of ostentatious sensitivity as "I keep searching the sky. As if I expected to see, rather like hearts, a lost pair of kites hurrying toward heaven." Those people who have been forced to give up cyclamates may find this an admirable substitute...
...rises against the sky without any respect for anyone, defying human perception. Look at it: it is only an image, the stark print of a monolith, pasted on blue paper. Touch it-it is mere granite. It makes no noise, has no odor. Even as you shiver in its shadow, you forget it exists...