Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular, on petroleum storage tanks next to a power station, caused a huge fire that turned Baghdad's blackout into a stage setting for Götterdämmerung. The minarets and distinctive egg-shaped domes of the city's mosques were silhouetted against a sky that glowed deep crimson all night long...
McGraw's last pitch of the game, a strikeout pitch, sent the Royals back to Kansas City never having won a world series and left the Phillies in temporary heaven in the City of Brotherly Love where firecrackers ripped through the sky. In the words of one loyal fan's banner, an entire city was assured that "this ain't Mudville...
...with the Martian tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote of sensuous princesses, six-legged beasts of burden, evil warlords and a Virginia gentleman named John Carter, who miraculously transported himself to the Red Planet simply by gazing at it. The dark-eyed youngster, looking up at the night sky from a Brooklyn lot, tried vainly to follow his hero into space. It was a dream that Sagan has never forgotten. Phobos, the name of one of the moons of Mars, now appears on the license plates of Sagan's bright orange Porsche...
...Impact of Space Photos. Many of the leaders of the ecological movement in the U.S. were originally stimulated to action by photographs of earth taken from space-pictures revealing a tiny, delicate and fragile world, exquisitely sensitive to the depredations of man, a meadow in the middle of the sky...
...Crisis Investing, Casey (1) 2. The Sky's the Limit, Dyer (3) 3. Free to Choose, Milton & Rose Friedman (5) 4. Shelley, Winters (4) 5. Number 1, Martin & Golenbock(2) 6. Merv, Griffin with Barsocchini 7. Nothing Down, Allen (6) 8. Craig Claiborne's Gourmet Diet, Claiborne with Franey (8) 9. Reconciliations, Rubin 10. How You Can Become Financially Independent by Investing in Real Estate, Lowry...