Word: sky
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning sky was grey, and the paraders had bitter words for the priests who had been praying for rain to relieve Italy's drought. Superstitious Communists carried defiant signs: "Is it raining? Will it rain? Certainly not until after the Feast of Unita!" They were right; soon a hot sun enveloped the crowds as they watched bicycle races and boxing matches, played roulette, danced, drank, threw baseballs (50 lire for three shots) at caricatures of priests and bishops and of Premier Alcide de Gasperi and tough Interior Minister Mario Scelba, who was by far the most popular target...
...among the multitudes some who favored the one contestant, some who favored the other; these harangued and spoke querulously to one another, maintaining the worthiness of their choices, so that the whole of the multitude seemed riven by this controversy, and within the space of but two days the sky was darkened by the gloomy clouds of faction...
...bilious, soot-streaked walls were hung with a weird jumble of oil paintings, whose cavernous halls housed Diplodocus carnegiei ("Dippy," the dinosaur) brought from a Wyoming fossil dump. Beside a ravine which belched forth the smoke of locomotives perched the Carnegie Institute. Soaring into the city's grey sky was the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning-42 stories of classrooms and offices piled one on top of another...
...threshold of a linguistic revolution," he said. "There is such a thing as having roots in the past and growing up into the sky above and not looking down on the soil ... A handful of British dominated us for so long. Why? Because they represented a higher culture of the day . . . Are we going to go back in mind and thought to that type of culture which once brought us to slavery...
Screaming "Fire! fire!", Newman ran toward the gangplank with his wife and others from the lounge. From the pier, they looked back. Within minutes, the 36-year-old ship, encrusted with innumerable coats of paint that burned almost Rke magnesium, was lighting the sky with flames...