Word: skyward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Istanbul's paved boulevards and narrow cobbled streets echo with the shrill tootle of otomobiller dodging rickety, horse-drawn carts and blind beggars. Smoke-blackened industrial towers, dubbed "Ataturk's minarets," jut skyward between the graceful spires of the Ottomans. The muezzin still calls the faithful to prayer, but in place of flowing robes, he wears a Western business suit. Near the waterfront, hollow-eyed children stare from the windows of tottering wooden tenements. In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee...
Disillusion in London. In Paris, the golden skies and wide boulevards played to bigger crowds than the Communists. The Reds marched into the Place de la Bastille, lilies of the valley in their lapels artd clenched fists raised skyward. Across the glittering city in the Bois de Boulogne, 100,000 made merry at a Gaullist carnival, ate colored ices, and paid 20 francs for the privilege of firing shooting-gallery rifles at caricatures of Premier Joseph Stalin and French Communist Leader Maurice Thorez...
With both players exhausted, Freeman still had uncanny control of his serve, a shot that lobs skyward for 30 feet or so, then plummets to earth so dead on the base line that opponents frequently let it drop thinking it will be outside-and it almost never is. The score in the third set crept to 15-all. After winning one point, Freeman put what remaining strength he had left into a final smash. Ooi Teik Hock went down...
Water-ski jumps usually consist of wooden platforms set with rollers or slime covered ramps aimed skyward at a forty-five degree angle. The two principle points the aspirant jumper must bear in mind as he finds himself launched into the air by this maniacal device are: (1) he must release the tow rope at the top of the jump; and (2) sooner or later he will come down...
...high noon on May 10, 1940-the day Hitler's Panzer divisions began their drive toward France-from the cloudless sky over ancient Freiburg a thin drone insisted. The burghers were not alarmed. They glanced skyward, expecting to watch another Luftwaffe observation plane drift toward the French border ten miles to the west. Instead, they saw a formation of planes, sweeping in at great altitude from the north. Seconds later, the burghers and their women and children ran for cover, shrieking. Terror bombing of undefended cities on the western front had begun...