Word: skyward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shock wave from that reversal ran, perceptibly and profoundly, through the world's watching millions, disturbing the U.S.'s friends, cheering its enemies, swaying the uncommitted, as eyes in African jungles and Asian market places, in European town squares and American suburbs strained skyward for a glimpse of Russia's tiny moons. In 1957, under the orbits of a horned sphere and a half-ton tomb for a dead dog, the world's balance of power lurched and swung toward the free world's enemies...
...projects are successful at first. By working harder and calmly, the launching of America's next satellite will make the world look skyward with admiration...
...Nixon-Dulles statements did not and could not overcome the general impression that the Administration was taking a bland view of Sputnik. Since the Soviet satellite first swirled skyward, there had been a continuous whirl of top-policy meetings behind closed Washington doors. ("A conference is not a place," said a Washington wag. "It is a technique for hiding.") The only apparent results came with the announcements that 1) Defense Department research and development funds would have to be cut by 10% because of an order issued last August by retiring Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, and that 2) new Defense...
...churned through a blizzard from Edmonton to get there on time, took them to Westcoast Transmission's huge gas-scrubbing plant (TIME, Sept. 2). Then, at the turn of a valve, gas roared through the 30-in. pipe heading south for Vancouver, and a gas flame leaped symbolically skyward. Said Frank McMahon: "So far it has all been going out. Now it will start coming...
Under Turkish rule, Constantinople's famed Christian shrines, like the great basilica of Saint Sophia, were restored and refurbished to the glory of Allah. Slim minarets rose skyward alongside rounded Byzantine domes. New architectural jewels, like the Blue Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, sprang up to rival the old, and the hiving humanity drawn by commerce to this natural crossroads of land and sea began to fill every available crevice with the insignificant architecture of its daily life...