Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conway said that she and her colleagues conceived the idea so that young people could visually counteract the shuttle explosion that occurred in the sky before their eyes on national television...
...entrance, the incarnadine exclamation of a Poiret dress laps a female figure like ripples on a lakeshore. Next to it, a dress from the House of Cybes, all shifting shades of blue with cascades of twinkling pearls, looks as if the stars had begun to shine in the afternoon sky. The roseate elegance of another dress showered with embroidered petals could seem, to the mannequin at the door, either an invitation or a challenge. To anyone looking in from outside, the dress draws the eye instantly and infuses the whole scene with its own tones of luxuriant nostalgia, the lasting...
...trouble started. They were crew members of the 44-ft. yacht Wathara IV, whose Australian owner, Bruce Cameron, 65, had stopped to take on water and food after 15 days at sea. On shore, they watched as artillery began to fire from the hills, MiGs appeared in the sky and shells suddenly were landing everywhere. "The concussions sucked the air from our lungs," McSeveney said later. "We thought we were going to die." After 24 hours, they swam a quarter mile through a sea of oil to the Wathara IV, only to discover that Cameron and the ship's dinghy...
...screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. It is too late. --Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow...
Other observers noted that the boosters continued to fly crazily through the sky after the explosion, apparently under full power, indicating the that the fatal explosion might have originated in the giant tank itself...