Word: skies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hire a good car, check the spare tire (roads are good but service stations can be hours apart), and head inland. Once you breach the mountains that line the coastline - the Outeniqua, the Baviaanskloofbeit or the Swartrugreng - you're in the Karoo. Roads run straight to the horizon, the sky is cloudless and the mountains are a sequence of blues and ambers...
...snow fell softly on the streets of Cambridge, covering the Yard in a layer of white, freshmen and upperclassmen alike bundled up in scarves, gloves, and puffy jackets. “It’s not just a legend—white stuff really does fall from the sky,” said Californian Christina M. Velez ’11. Eeke L. de Milliano ’11, a Netherlands native and veteran of blizzards, welcomed the first flakes with a snowball fight early yesterday morning. “We were screaming and running around...
...presidential campaigns have long been prime occasions to let imaginative idealism run wild. Pie-in-the-sky aspirations of what the UC presidents are able to accomplish proliferate, and often convince even the more disillusioned students, for a moment at least, to wonder whether this may be the year those promises come true...
...Howard had phoned his congratulations to Kevin Rudd, and Sky News announced the P. M.'s imminent arrival. A couple of diehards carrying a JOHN HOWARD FOREVER banner pushed roughly through the photographers lining the stage, careless of a supposedly left-leaning media complicit in Rudd's triumph. As one tried to protect his camera, a rugby league player in an expensive suit grabbed his shirt, snarling, "It's you f___ people's fault. Are you happy...
...time in Baghdad usually comes around midnight. Curfew falls. People across the city turn off lights and bed down, easing the load on the electricity grid enough to allow government-run power-lines to flow. Generators go silent. Fumes clear, and stars come into view in the clear night sky. On some evenings these days if you stay up late you can hear unbroken hours of hushed calm stirred only by the distant barking of dogs or the wispy echoes of a jet high overhead. Other nights, though, the crunch of bombs falling around the city begins to sound heavily...