Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exactly 5:42 a.m., just when the coming day seems to hesitate between darkness and dawn. Suddenly a torrent of fire from an exploding gas tank surged more than 300 ft. into the sky over the Mexico City suburb of San Juan Ixhuatepec, splashing it with hellish waves of orange, yellow, red, black. The chill dawn air became searing...
Antonia Moreno was getting her husband Rafael, a warehouse janitor, off to work. "The earth shook and we heard thunder," she recalled. "We could see flames all over the sky and a lot of black smoke." The couple fled with two of their children (two others were spending the night with their grandmother). They dashed out of their tin-roofed, corrugated-cardboard hillside house and began running. They saw their neighbors running too, many in their nightshirts or underwear. "Some people were half-naked, and they burned their feet because the ground was so hot," Antonia Moreno said. "Nobody...
...Post, writes with occasional Second City vulgarity and feistiness. But he can also display an elegiac grace about a world in which everything, everywhere, has suddenly gone wrong: "Heading along the street to where he had parked his car, he looked up and saw a dark red, liver-colored sky, full of ores and oxides and particulates. The droughts of last summer had been followed by the winds of November. Although Allan did not know it, he was seeing the State of Oklahoma blowing past Chicago, traveling east. The Dust Bowl had begun...
...Voyager probes to Saturn and beyond were "as exciting as the discoveries made in the age of Columbus," declares Sagan. The observation of huge dust clouds on Mars set scientists to wondering what would happen to the earth's atmosphere if the sky filled with smoke and ashes from cities burning during a nuclear war. The answer was the chilling vision of a "nuclear winter" that would blot out the sun and end life on earth. Unmanned satellites help verify arms-control treaties, map ocean currents and weather patterns, even locate mineral deposits...
...discreet tryst remains a powerful weapon on the side of the angels. Indeed, Falling in Love shows an extramarital affair to be the neutron bomb of interpersonal relations, capable of wiping out all intelligent life, leaving only the bare generic conventions of romantic fiction standing stark against the sky...