Word: skies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday afternoon, the sky is blue. Some wine would be nice, but you can't afford an import and don't understand all those years and foreign names, anyway...
From the train depot, Gawber sees the house Hood has bombed as "a low cloud touched by fire" against the night sky. The explosion is distant, unrecognizable, a theatrical spectacular for the eyes. Gawber knows the explosion itself doesn't matter since the life is already dead. "He put his hands to his eyes," Theroux writes, "and tried to stop the tears with his fingers...
...forget the 1971 season when under an indigo October sky Paul Kaliades connected on a field goal with seconds showing on the clock to bring the Lions back from the precipice of defeat against Princeton. Kaliades then repeated the feat against Dartmouth to pull out a 31-29 win from the Ivy League champs...
...onerous conditions could be attached to the IMF loan. Talk is circulating through London that the IMF may demand, if not a $1.50 pound, then draconian cuts in social spending or a rise in the Bank of England's minimum lending rate to 18% (it is already a sky-high...
...life trying to reach the White House, who has finally fulfilled one promise, and who will have many more to keep; for the campaign staffs and assorted workers, who succeeded and failed, and for whom there will always be another campaign; for the reporters, who have returned from the sky for a few more years, and who should spend more time in contemplation during the next journey; and for the voters, who, after all, are responsible for all of the above...