Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sky was still blue, but the land had caught the shadow, and the sea looked almost dark. Dark shadows blackened the water, and the lights of the harbor were lit and shimmered on the surface of the sea like oil. All the substance began to run from the colors; finally, only the black of the shadows and the white of the lights remained...
...European twist," as Tweeds President Jeff Aschkenes, 46, puts it. Many outfits are made of linen, this year's trendy fabric, and come in offbeat colors. Examples: pleated, prewashed linen trousers ($59) available in Moroccan brown, sage, cadet or flax; and cotton- Lycra pants ($29) in the colors of sky and palm. Tweeds' designers take about four trips to Europe each year to observe -- and sometimes borrow -- the latest Continental fashions and fabrics...
...officials later explained that the MiG's pilot had ejected shortly after takeoff from Poland's Kolobrzeg air base, in the mistaken belief that his aircraft had lost power. The plane flew on automatic pilot for 1 hour and 37 minutes, covering 560 miles before falling out of the sky. Soviet officials promised to pay for "physical and moral damages" caused by the mishap...
Like a giant nuclear-fusion furnace in the sky, the sun radiates stupendous amounts of energy. Some of it departs in the form of speeding particles, mostly electrons and protons, that form a solar wind blowing from the sun in all directions. It is this continuously flowing wind that feeds particles into the earth's Van Allen radiation belts and distorts the terrestrial magnetic field into a teardrop shape. It also sets off the frequent minor auroral displays visible at higher latitudes...
...much remembering. In Funes, the Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges tells the story of a man who suddenly gains the ability to remember every iota of information he has ever apprehended. Every vein of every leaf of every tree, every formation of every cloud in every sky at every instant of his life he sees. An avalanche of knowing renders him inaccessible, mystical and finally defeated. Funes dies young. No mind can apprehend God's work, or man's, in all its detail and survive. Forgetting, for men as for nations, is a biological necessity, like sleep, a respite from consciousness...