Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aboard the C-141, the Paratrooper, jammed among his equipment-laden buddies, drifts into and out of sleep. Twenty minutes from the drop zone, the final commands begin. Then he is out the door and into the clear sky, counting aloud, "One thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand." His chute is snatched open by the rushing air, and he drifts toward the ground...
...formation after another of C-141s lumbered 1,000 ft. overhead at 125 m.p.h., spewing parachutists from both sides, as escort planes darted above them. It was an explosion, an inundation, a blizzard of men from the sky, lasting less than five minutes...
...positions. The most important was Reagan's advocacy of a 30% cut in income tax rates over three years, a proposal that the nominee not only repeated but stressed in his acceptance speech last week. During the primaries, Bush derided that idea as "voodoo economics" and "pie in the sky...
...gleaming silos of the Renaissance Center, became a kind of urban village green. As delegates strolled by, hawkers peddled goods ranging from elephant baseball hats to Ronald Reagan dolls. Exotic odors of ethnic cooking wafted through the square, and an $8,000 display of fireworks lit up the night sky on the eve of the convention...
...life was varied if not sad. Sellers stood four times beneath the nuptial tier, never with a girl over 23. There was Anne, Britt, Miranda, and finally Lynne, who never got to say goodbye to her husband before he boarded the jet for the big cutting room in the sky...