Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...storms finally calm, the fires die and the screams stop, and in the end, it is a calm, clear day. The white house stands quietly, gloriously beneath the blue sky, a "For Sale" sign hanging in front. But we know that the follow-up to that has already been chronicled...
...militiamen spent the night at slaughter, calling on the Israeli army to send up hundreds of flares and star shells over the camps to illuminate their bloody work. "Thursday night was an inferno," recalls a medical worker at Gaza Hospital. "The sky was never dark. The shooting never stopped. The people screamed." Not content with merely shooting people, the assailants used ropes and hatchets; many of the victims were bound together and mutilated. Some people were killed in their homes, while others were dragged outside to be murdered. Judging from the debris that was left, some of the soldiers...
...middle of the U.S., in the heart of Illinois, in the depths of Herb Steffen's 220 acres of ripe corn, everything seems plainly abundant. The sunny September sky is as wide and weightless as the fields' earthen smells are dark and sweet. Bugs buzz in and out of earshot and the perfectly golden stalks rustle in the breezes, but the quiet, like everything else, still seems pure and plentiful...
Fireball in the sky...
...secret maneuvers, you see gradually, strategically making my way towards the United States Military Academy at West Point. I am resting now in a veritable No Man's Land--a stormy sky overhead and wilderness all around...