Word: skyward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parizeau, investigating "grey ash" found on car windshields, blamed Radiolaria. His argument: these single-celled animals live in countless billions in the sea. When they die, their silicic, spherical skeletons sink to the ocean floor, form a radiolarian ooze. An explosion such as the H-bomb would blow them skyward, heating them past 1,710° centigrade, at which temperature silica melts. But they would harden again at the lower temperatures of the atmosphere and, being feather light, would float on the wind across the Pacific -to strike windshields...
...fantastic paradox of farm prices, on a toboggan slide while living costs soared skyward, has ceased...
...other men were marched up the hill, past the small, walled cemetery to a grassy ledge overhanging the town. For hours they were kept there. Finally, at 3:30 in the afternoon (the time was verified later from several smashed watches), two red flares arched skyward from the village below. At that signal, concealed machine guns opened up. A few minutes later, 1.200 men and boys lay on the sod in grotesque, moaning clumps. Soldiers moved professionally among them, silencing the moans with machine pistols. Some how, five pretended death successfully. All the rest - the mayor, the priest, the doctor...
Unmatched Record. Big Bill was the John Barrymore of the courts, and the crowds loved it, even when he hurled his racket skyward shrieking. "Ye gods! Is there no justice?" after a linesman made a close call against him. Hands on hips, defying all tennis convention, Big Bill would glower at the offending official and ask coldly: "Would you like to correct your error...
...painstakingly detailed schedule. Few materials are piled on the sidewalk or in the streets, because most of the materials are brought to the site only when needed. A steady stream of trucks flows in & out of the building, just fast enough to keep the steel girders climbing skyward and a supply of concrete and bricks on hand to encase them...