Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unabated. Many densely populated sectors of the city were hard hit, including Palestinian refugee camps at its south end. Heavy fighting raged in and around Beirut airport. The bombardment went on through the night: illumination flares and the bright flashes of flak exploding in the air turned the night sky into a display of deadly fireworks. Israeli pilots dumped their empty fuel tanks over the city, sending them crashing into cars and rooftops. "We are animals, animals," cried a weeping Lebanese father, whose apartment building collapsed in a heap of rubble. "All we do is kill each other." Then...
...Buenos Aires to celebrate Malvinas Day, the anniversary of the appointment of the first Argentine governor of the contested islands known in Spanish as Las Malvinas. As Galtieri waved his hat in salute, the crowd chanted, "Be strong! Don't back down!" and unfurled national flags of sky-blue and white...
...little less sure about giving the creature a species name. White will say only that it appears to be an older version of Lucy, which is perhaps the most irreverent appellation ever bestowed upon an important fossil. (The name was inspired by the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, which the scientists were playing on a tape recorder the night of the find.) White, in any case, has every reason to be cautious. In 1979 he and the leader of the Lucy expedition, Anthropologist Donald Johanson, touched off a major anthropological controversy by lumping Lucy and other...
...blur-fast. It is invisible to radar. It has a shield that makes it almost impervious to enemy rockets. And a pilot can direct its weaponry with his brain waves; you think bad thoughts about the other guy, and blam! you blow him right out of the sky. It is probably true that possession of such a plane would control the cold war balance of power...
...working in the vortex that is the Crimson's production shop, overhearing the latest reports on the American hostages Iran via the newspaper's excise for a black and white TV. Three friends were checking the dispatches clicking over the old Associated Press wire machine in the sky we call the newsroom. They roused professors in the middle of the night, just in case. A paste up that went up on the production hay as the day dawned. In hours, it was filled with typeset copy and headlines and then the sky turned black again...