Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This bridge was only maybe five years old," Atencio was saying. "The young ones do not build them as good as the oldtimers." Below, the river ran shallow, clear and green. Beyond sprawled the lion-toned territory. Everywhere else was a deep-blue sky like an inverted bowl; everywhere, that is, but along the terribly littered bank. Atencio gave the trash a tearless but disgusted eye. Tourists had not been responsible for the beer cans, the dead radios, the broken whisky bottles and the rump-sprung chairs. The Indian knew that. Standing there by the mess, gray hair pulled back...
...well-meaning but far-from-fluent American stewardess announced that "champignon " would soon be served. Her passengers whooped with ungallant laughter. In Gaylesburg, Ill., to tour Secretary of Agriculture John Block's 3,000-acre farm, Mitterrand donned rubber boots, a farmer's cap and a sky-blue jacket with MR. PRESIDENT stitched over the heart. He and Block disagreed about American exports undercutting European Community farmers, but Mitterrand lightened the mood by driving a tractor and cuddling a piglet with black-and-white markings. Said he: "Our pigs tend to be bigger and pink...
...concluded by reminding President Bok that he had not commented on the two FBI documents concerning Harvard that I had sent him, and by pointing out that his arguments were rejected at the time the Freedom of Information Act had been debated--and that neither the government nor the sky had fallen...
Neither side on the increasingly polemical yellow rain dispute has been able to produce incontrovertible scientific evidence, and each has relied on what explanation seems most plausible for reports of yellow substances falling from the sky...
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... Supergirl...