Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning air. She waves to old friends as they drift off, feeling only an elusive, half-real sense of loss. Above her loom massive gray factory walls with their vast mosaic of windows, painted-over green, cracked and dirty. Only one of the four black smokestacks exhales into the sky. The railroad tunnels that run beneath the building are empty, and the moaning central paint ovens have fallen silent...
...Frank Norris marveled at the richness of the wheat crop: "There it lay, a vast silent ocean, shimmering a pallid green under the moon and under the stars; a mighty force, the strength of nations, the life of the world. There in the night, under the dome of the sky, it was growing ..." In the decades since, production has doubled and redoubled until today the U.S. grows almost half of all the world's corn, two-thirds of its soybeans and more than a tenth of its wheat. Producing food is the nation's most efficient and most productive industry...
...their headquarters near the airport, with mess tents, field hospitals and huge, balloon-like fuel depots. In the early days, Russian soldiers patrolled the snow-covered streets and manned checkpoints throughout the city. By night they cruised the area in armored cars, sporadically firing into the starry sky. "The object of the shooting," said a traveler who managed to leave Kabul on the daily bus to Pakistan, "was to keep people frightened and inside their homes...
...badly hurt by OPEC price increases. The country imports 75% of its oil, and most of that had come from two of the shakier cartel members, Iran and Ecuador. In March, Iran broke its contract, and Ecuador has also stopped selling oil to Chile, forcing it to pay the sky-high spot-market price. Fuel bills jumped to an estimated $771 million last year, from $429 million in 1978, torpedoing projections for an inflation rate of under...
...England at this time of year. But the lovely, deceitful covering of snow that should hide it all until April, that should lead the eye across the sloping ground of the pasture, then into the woods beyond, has accomplished the ultimate deceit by not falling out of the sky. The car rumbles by on the dirt road in front of the house, and its wheels churn thick whirls of dust...