Word: skies
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...inmates as well as guards and wardens. It also studied a flood of recommendations from the public. One man proposed hollow cell bars filled under pressure with dye so that anyone trying to saw through them is sprayed an incriminating color. While it gave short shrift to such blue-sky schemes, the committee did suggest that Wormwood Scrubbs use closed-circuit television and more searchlights for better prisoner surveillance. The equipment was installed within a matter of days...
Except for the black sky in the background, the photograph might have been mistaken for a composite of the scenic grandeur of Grand Canyon and the barren desolation of the Badlands of South Dakota. But when it was flashed unexpectedly onto a screen at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Boston last week, sophisticated space scientists and engineers recognized the terrain immediately. It was a spectacular closeup shot of lunar landscape. That photograph of the moon's Crater of Copernicus, said NASA Scientist Martin Swetnick, is "one of the great pictures of the century...
...something of what must be Yevtushenko's great quality in his native tongue comes through in at least one poem in the Marshall translation, his uncompleted "epic" composition, Brat-sky GES (Bratsk State Hydroelectric Power Station). There is special pleasure in these episodes where the original metrical scheme does not call for rhymes above and beyond the call of the English language, and where...
...like an Ivy League college. It is quieter. There are only a few people outside; almost everyone attends classes until late afternoon. A young girl walks along a pebble path, using a cane to guide herself. A boy, perhaps eight years old, sits on a step, staring at the sky...
...first meteors streaked across the sky. after midnight on Nov. 17, the students began recording the time, brightness and trajectory of each. Though the rate of fall was disappointingly low-no more than two a minute -the students stayed at their post. Then, about 5 a.m., stars fell on Arizona. "It was like a snowfall of meteors," said Dennis Milon, head of the team. "Many outshone Jupiter." During a 20-minute period of peak activity, he estimated, the meteors were falling at a rate of 140,000 per hour...