Word: skies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under a cloudy sky in front of Langdell Library, as the mingled scents of fresh-cut grass and perfume wafted through the air, the former presidential adviser took his audience of graduating law students and their proud parents on a journey through law's past, present and future...
...National Weather Service predicts a cloudy sky for the morning ceremonies, becoming partly sunny by the afternoon with a high temperature near 70 and no precipitation...
...Schulman said, pointing her back to the first two clues. Her instructions were to open her find where she could see the sky. And the book jacket warned: "Roof use only." So they headed to an old haunt, the roof of a law school building where they had watched a sunset together...
...hopes were deflated by Dan Wertheimer, head of the SETI project, who advised me not to hold my breath. The picture on my screen, it turns out, represents a mere 107 sec. of data from 1 millionth of the night sky. My chances of winning the galactic lottery are about 1 in 100 million--assuming there is any prize...
...robust quality of his singing is helping lay to rest a silly but persistent cliche: that real men don't sing alto. For years countertenors were kidded about the presumed implications of their sky-high voices. (Deller is said to have been confronted backstage once by a German fan who asked, "You are eunuch, yes?" to which the singer allegedly replied, "I think perhaps you mean unique, madam.") And in the '50s and '60s, when rumors of homosexuality could still kill a career, many went out of their way to stress their manliness. But times have changed, and Daniels makes...