Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prince's easy wit was still shipshape that afternoon when his red helicopter dropped out of a gray sky into the grimy valley town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. He had come to dedicate the $11 million Prince Charles Hospital, a 362-bed facility that some valley residents fear will shut down local hospitals. "Not to worry," said Charles, striding up to a sign-carrying demonstrator. "We have to put this hospital somewhere." Plowing along a line of well-wishers, he joked with a mother of six children ("You're going to heavily populate the pediatrics ward"), then moved inside...
...years to the day when John Paul Jones, with his ship ablaze and sinking beneath him, shouted to the apparently victorious British, "I have not yet begun to fight!" It is the gallant tradition of the Constitution ("... and many an eye has danced to see/That banner in the sky"), three times victorious over proud British frigates. Of the Olympia leading Commodore Dewey's fleet to the liberation of the Philippines, of the Yorktown and the Lexington grievously damaged as they blocked the Japanese imperial armada at the Battle of the Coral...
Even though Harvard is sky-high and optimistic, Yale rates as a favorite in the showdown, and a couple of Harvard injuries have solidified the Elis' favorite status. Crimson captain Todd Lundy will return to the number-one spot to face Yale's Matt Coyle after ten days out of action, but he remains below 100 per cent with injured ribs. Even worse, Harvard's four-player, Scott Walker, sprained an ankle in practice Monday night, and may not even play...
...anger was quick to follow. When the AAA member left, it was unclear whether the BSA and AAA would publicly denounce the sit-out, or merely withhold their support. (As it turned out the next day, various leaders of these groups participated in the sit-out activities.) The sky was getting lighter by this time, and the coming day was clearly The Enemy, a foot-tapping, non-verbal "Hurry up please, it's time." The approximately 120 people who remained had no idea what to expect: perhaps they would have to cancel the sit-out and slink home...
These are essential texts for Monet's lily-pond paintings, with their almost indistinguishable precisions of color, their deep tracts of the reflected sky (no horizon line, no orientation in space; the eye floats in an amniotic fluid of light), and their intricate play between air colors in the water and the solider rafts of lilies crossing them like clouds. Toward the end of his life, as his vision degenerated-first, after a series of primitive cataract operations, distorting his sight toward yellow, and at last toward blue-Monet rarely left his garden; but then, he did not need...