Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known to have set foot upon it until the 19th century, and even today it exposes unwary travelers to the greatest dangers. Temperatures regularly plunge to -100° F or below. Giant crevasses can open in the ice, swallowing men and machines. Sudden storms often blend ground and sky into one snowy blur that hopelessly disorients the most skilled aviators...
...Huskies' size advantage was most evident when they got five or six cracks at the basket, or when their 6-ft, 3-in center (she looked a lot talier) was looping in sky books reminiscent of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Home remarked after the game that it's tough to win a game "when you're giving up four or five inches underneath...
...plays trumpet on the wharf whenever anything romantic happens. And there's also a piano on the wharf (and another in, of all places, Doc's laboratory) so that Mac can liven up spontaneous parties with his honky tonk jazz. And everyone speaks in cliches, and the sky is always purple and torrid like one of those sea scenes from Woolworth...
...prudent distance. In one such incident, about 40 guerrillas armed with M-16s and older carbines blocked the road and burned a cotton truck and a Jeep. The marauders posed happily for pictures. About a mile away, a contingent of Salvadoran soldiers watched the billowing smoke rise in the sky. One of the soldiers, little more than a teenager, announced that his troop would visit the scene of the blockade "later...
...addition, the blue sky and open spaces that attracted the area's pioneers 25 years ago are now becoming obscured by industrial parks and a thin layer of smog. Crime is on the rise. The theft of computers and semiconductors has become an estimated $20 million-a-year problem. Housing is scarce and expensive. The price of an average home in Santa Clara County...