Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Babbitt's van races through Iowa under a steely sky, he gazes out the window and sighs. For a moment there is a lingering wistfulness, a remote sadness, for all the missed meals and family separations. But no one is forcing him to continue. In the end, there is only one reason why he made the painful decision to miss for the first time going trick-or-treating with his sons. There was the distant hope, still visible to him on the Iowa horizon, that he would have to miss Halloween only one more time -- next year, as he heads...
Cheer on cheer like volleyed thunder Echoes to the sky...
Democratic hopeful Richard Gephardt of Missouri also supports an improved IRS, but he said he doubts Dukakis's "pie in the sky enforcement scheme" as an answer to the deficit...
...Despite the strong mark, Germany has become the world's leading exporter. Japan is openly contemptuous of the notion that the U.S. can solve its problems through devaluation. Says Johsen Takahashi, chief economist of the Mitsubishi Research Institute: "Letting the dollar slip now is like spitting up into the sky." Another Japanese economist is equally blunt: "America is no longer in control of its own currency...
When the sun sets on an empire, who will turn on the lamplights? Or will the fading sky be illuminated by the torches of revolution and anarchy? In South Africa, white rulers desperately hold back the dusk with brutal measures that amount to the imposition of triple daylight saving time. But they can't hold back the clock; night and a new, black dawn are surely imminent. In Britain the empire has collapsed upon itself. A long generation ago the colonists came home, followed by their colonials -- dark skins, quick minds and rebellious hearts from the East and West Indies...