Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is that wildflower? A sky pilot...
...RAIN: cold, clammy, pervading rain that leaked through the tent and soaked the sleeping bag. The sky bode more ill than good. There was no thunder though, which left me no excuses. Moreover, I had specifically asked 'Ranger Bob' the night before what the streams would be like, reminding him I would be making the hike alone. Stoned, but still the authority, he said "no problem...
Late into the London afternoon, as the sky darkened outside the high arched windows of the Church House dome, the debate sizzled on. Finally, almost an hour behind schedule, the clergy and laity filed into antechambers, the bishops remained in the assembly hall, and all three groups « conducted separate votes, with a majority in each needed to pass the motion. Results: laity 120-106 in favor; bishops 32-17 in favor; clergy 149-94 opposed. As the final antiordination tally was read, Dr. Una Kroll, an Anglican feminist, stood up in the gallery and cried out: "We asked...
...nocturnal migrations when the people of Roosevelt began seeing those strange, dancing lights. Indeed, as the moths hovered and blinked overhead, while trying to escape atmospheric electric fields on certain stormy nights, they might well have resembled what the scientists call a great "free-floating discothèque in the sky...
From a restaurant at the top of one of Pretoria's new sky-scrapers you can see a group of lights, blinking outside the city limits. This is the black residential area--where the blacks return at night, to tiny crowded houses and coal stoves. If they are lucky enough to have the right kind of pass, they can live with their families; if they are even luckier, their house might have electricity. If they are unlucky, they live in single-sex hostels, or illegally in squatter compounds, in fear of the dawn pass raids that could send them back...