Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...option except to give up a base whose lease would have expired in 1971 anyway. "The sky over Arab Libya," charged Colonel Gaddafi, "is being polluted by foreign planes." Whipping up popular sentiment against the American and British military presence, Gaddafi asserted that Libyans were being "terrified" by colonialist soldiers. Unless Britain and the U.S. agreed to give up their bases, he threatened to take them by force...
DECEMBER is the darkest month. The sun is lowest in the sky. The nights are longest. Yet in its midst?perhaps in their hunger for warmth and light in the nadir of seasons?believers of the Western world have immemorially celebrated hope. In recent years, God has seemed to many as dim as the winter-solstice sun on the horizon. It has been a December of religion. Now, as the days grow longer into the new decade, believers and those who would like to believe are hoping that the long, bleak month is over...
...peace in Washington or New York, and this month on a tour of some 20 colleges and universities through the South. Though a robustly spiritual man, Kirkpatrick suggests that more black ministers might use their spe cial independence more fruitfully if they could abandon the pie-in-the-sky preaching inherited from slavery days and "get down to the problems right here...
...writhe against their bondage; and against the bleak gray and black patterns projected behind them and onto the moving drapery. At first we perceive the slide-patterns as abstract, then as endless wooden coffins; only near the end do we realize that the photographs are close-ups of a sky-scraper facade...
...Penn upset Harvard 5-4 for its first victory ever over a Crimson squash team. "I never saw a squad so sky-high following a victory." coach Jack Barnaby recalls. That single loss dropped Harvard to its worst finish in Ivy history-second place...