Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wealth of the tall grass prairie was its undoing," writes Author John Madson, of Godfrey, Ill., in Where the Sky Began, his evocative story of the fecund heartland. Nearly a year's production of corn lies unused in bins and warehouses. A quarter of a year of soybeans is stored up. The Western plains are piled with a year's worth of surplus wheat. The harvest of the new wheat crop is almost finished, and it is a whopper: 2.2 billion bu. Providence seems to be pushing us toward some rendezvous with disaster. The Corn Belt is like John Bunyan...
...Behlen Mfg. Co., in Columbus, Neb., which makes metal bins, has increased its work force from 350 to 750. Marion Havens, of Greenfield, Iowa, who assembles bins, is working triple his usual pace, rooting a new one every fourth day in some field. They point toward the blue sky like truncated missiles. If only we could fire them toward the Soviet Union, we might help everybody...
Back in the clear, cold winter, when he had time for his verses, Farmer- Poet Carey looked at his world and wondered and wrote: "There is such a sadness on the land, Chicken Little. Chicken Little, the sky has fallen...
Leading astronomers said yesterday that observational studies and new sky-watching techniques will open up new knowledge of our universe in the coming decades, as they addressed a capacity Science Center crowd of more than 500 alumni and students...
...SATURDAY, a 30-foot hand will reach into the sky over the anniversary-closing Stadium Celebration and sign the name of Class of 1754 member John Hancock in fireworks-illuminated letters big enough for Prince Charles to see without his spectacles. After, some will malign the excesses of Harvard's frothy sesquitercentenary, taking potshots at the fireworks and the mylar balloons that spanned the Charles last night...