Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pidgeons in such numbers we see fly That like a cloud they do make dark the sky; And in such multitudes are sometimes found, As that they cover both the trees and ground: He that advances near with one good shot, May kill enough to fill both spit...
...blunt as he was gloomy. Failure to enact a 10% income tax surcharge, he told Congress last week, would leave the U.S. with "an economy in shambles." Without higher taxes, insisted Fowler, the nation faces "the biggest deficit since World War II, an overheated economy and spiraling inflation, sky-high interest rates and tight money for all borrowers...
...disturbs many fans, not to mention worried parents. The whole Sgt. Pepper album is "drenched in drugs," as the editor of a London music magazine puts it. One track features Drummer Ringo Starr quavering, "I get high with a little help from my friends." Another number, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, evokes a drug-induced hallucination, and even the initials of the title spell out LSD, though the Beatles plead sheer coincidence...
...will house 400 meteorologists, atmospheric chemists, astronomers, air-pollution experts and other scientists from a group of 23 universities doing atmospheric research. Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, N.C.A.R.'s director, believes that "no field of science offers a greater potential for the good of all mankind. The sky is quite literally the limit." Accordingly he wanted a building to house his staff that would be "symbolic, but not monumental, ascetic but hospitable, something that expresses both the contemplative and exciting aspects of scientific activity...
Defining Limits. The evening contained only two recognizable musical moments. At one point, the hornist inexplicably quoted a swatch of Tchaikov sky's Symphony No. 5, and the possibly unhinged trombonist retired to an adjoining terrace to toot 76 Trombones...