Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bombers came thundering out of the bright sun, flying only 600 ft. above the desert floor. Just a mile from the audience, each warplane sent 27 Mark-82 bombs, weighing 500 lbs. apiece, crashing onto a mock airstrip. Pillars of fire and black smoke billowed into the translucent sky. Minutes later, the aircraft wheeled to the west, starting their 7,000-mile nonstop flight back...
November. The days grow short, the nights cold. Time to reach for that travel brochure for, where else, South Florida, America's favorite winter playground. Hmmm, let's see now. Here is a picture of palm trees swaying gently under a cottony blue sky while a family frolics in the foamy surf. Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning. There is a creamy stucco Palm Beach mansion, its red tile roof glinting fiercely in the sun and bougainvillea rioting, colorfully...
...flying faster than a bullet-at ten times the speed of sound-and dropping like a rock, 20 times faster than a similar-size DC-9 jet on landing. Finally, it came out of the blue, a tiny, glistening white speck that wrote a special signature in the sky-intermittent puffs of vapor created by the purging of excess fuel...
...with few clouds in the sky, it seems that no matter where the visitor looks on the sprawling UNC campus, blue sky is conspicuous in the background. In fact, wherever you look here in "Tar Hell" country, there's sky blue in view...
...sky blue is Tar Heel blue...