Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pilots in tiny FAC planes hovered continually over the battlefield to locate the more easily indentifiable targets. To coordinate all the activities, an ABCCC (Airborne Command and Control Center) was kept in the sky high over Khe Sanh at all times. It was a C-130 Herky Bird packed with the latest electronic gear, which enabled the Air Force colonel on board to talk with Marines on the ground, pilots in the surrounding sky and his own superiors in Saigon...
Sand, sea and sky are an essay in greys, the water blackest. Syllables flow from our throats, ours and mine, but I am shamed by the distant hot dog man whose trousers reach almost to the armpits. He has no chest or stomach, in fact, no body...
...fear behind you and the sky is open...
...spotlights swept the sky when it happened. No vinyl microskirted star lets babbled by; no gawkers gathered under a spangled marquee. Yet the event was as important as any premiere in Hollywood history. On the day in 1966 when Jack Warner sold his studio to the parvenu Seven Arts Productions, a new movie epoch began...
HARVARD SQUARE has been gripped, while you were away, by the sprinkling of Summer that passes for Spring around here. The winds are generous, gushing, the fading-blue sky spreads milky sunlight--and the humans below etch jaunty patterns...