Word: sky
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Night of Terror. One mile away, at the town of Song Be. Dak Son's intended defenders, a battalion of South Vietnamese soldiers, clenched their fists in helplessness as they watched the flames on the plateau mount higher and higher into the dark sky. Their small force of helicopters had earlier been sent out on another mission and could not be recalled. A march on foot to relieve Dak Son would lead through a wild and deep ravine separating the burning hamlet from Song Be. It meant three miles on a tortuous and twisting trail in the darkness...
...thing about the Beatles is that they've never been part of anything else. Three years ago they stood in the wind next to Stonehenge singing "The Night Before" amused and surrounded by tanks. Then last summer they came out in flowers. Lucy in the Sky in with Diamonds was an anagram for LSD; A Day in the Life smoked pot; and then there was All You Need Is Love. Great new sounds, but it sure looked like they'd joined the hippies. After their new 45, we can turn around and read the summer differently. They may have dressed...
...they fly like Lucy in the sky--see how they...
There were other, more remarkable changes in the sky. At the tremendous velocities necessary for interstellar travel, there were noticeable Doppler shifts in the frequencies of light emitted from the stars. As the spacecraft approached stars at high velocity, their light appeared to be shifted toward the blue, or higher frequency end of the spectrum. Moving rapidly away from other stars caused their light to appear more red. Stars viewed through the front window of the spacecraft generally became more blue, those through the rear window more red, as the spacecraft velocity increased...
...already become lost in space, there was a more puzzling effect to confound him: relativistic aberration, the apparent shift of visible stars toward the direction of the spacecraft's motion. Thus, the computer showed, as the craft approached 45 Eridani at ever increasing velocities, other stars in the sky began to converge toward the target star. At 90% of the speed of light, only a few stars remained visible through the rear window. In a nightmarish finale to Moskowitz's flight, the remainder of the visible universe-stars, galaxies, nebulas-seemed to collapse into a single point...