Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Discussing the division of responsibility, Bok looked up at the sky which was beginning to cloud and remarked. "They took credit for the weather, we took credit for the food." For dessert, however. UMass provided the better football team, destroying Harvard...
John R. Funk, a retired seed-corn executive and president of the George Ade Memorial Association, comes on the line with directions to the old Ade estate as if it blocks out more Indiana sky than a grain elevator. "Two miles east of Brook, on Indiana 16," he says, neglecting to say there is no interstate exit for Brook, nor for Highway 16, and not saying, too, that the signs at the town of Brook proclaim a population of 914 and a ban on peddlers and solicitors, but do not mention Ade. Found in the flesh, Funk, a courtly study...
...French have long been celebrated for their enthusiastic worship of The Woman--the femina who is perfect, whose beauty and sex rating is sky-high. The petty irritation of what happens on their streets inevitably reflects that. But it also holds up a focusing lens to something we in this country are unable to perceive clearly from where we stand. We live with the same assumption, more wavery and ungraspable but just as deep-rooted, that separates women from people...
First there were two small red flashes in the starry sky above California's Mojave Desert, as the space shuttle Challenger fired thruster rockets to steady its attitude. Then, after a wait of about three minutes, ground observers glimpsed the unlighted shuttle. Silently it glided into view just 200 ft. above the end of runway 22. In the glare of blue xenon searchlights, Navy Captain Richard Truly, the mission commander, flawlessly guided the orbiter, nose up, to its first nighttime landing. Challenger's arrival at Edwards Air Force Base last week, at 12:40 a.m. California time, ended...
...local hospital with head injuries; a team of French physicians pronounces him dead. His widow Marie suspects foul play. "Did they kill him . . . because of what I didn't do?" she muses mysteriously. The phrase has a paranoid cast, as does her fear of the open sky. A frequent fantasy: "Guns were leveled from that blue brightness, following her every step...