Word: skyward
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...President Reagan said after the Challenger exploded in 1986, “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.” In order to turn America’s eyes skyward once again, and in honor of these courageous astronauts, NASA should rededicate itself to a goal worthy of the sacrifice they made—to ascend the heavens and touch the soil of another planet, bearing all the hopes and dreams of mankind...
Beatty, arms stretched skyward, was all smiles—and not just because he was in the middle of what was statistically the best game of his young Havard career. His career-high 10 points aside, Beatty’s wide grin was for his Cabot House blockmate, sophomore guard Kevin Rogus...
...dusk when the first fireball burst from the Mekong. A glowing pink orb hovered over the chocolaty waters for a split second then accelerated noiselessly skyward, winking out some 100 meters above. Minutes later, another soared from the roiling river. Then some way downstream, a string of four burst into a bruised sky that was looking angrier by the moment. Each tiny eruption was greeted with a jubilant roar, like a kickboxing crowd hailing a series of withering knee strikes. The lights looked a bit like exploding flares, though there was no hiss or smoke, no sparkling arc back...
...that the fireballs are set off by Lao monks, not soldiers. The dreamy opening sequence follows loincloth-clad divers as they plant clay "eggs" along the riverbed. Illuminated boats sweep by above, lighting up the expectant faces of the throng assembled along the riverbank. Then the pink fireballs burst skyward from the water to resounding cheers. The mythical snake is breathing fire again, welcoming the Buddha back to earth...
...shop where I stopped for water. "Be careful." Thus it was with some trepidation that I turned off the highway and followed the signs along a strip of crumbling bitumen. I passed through the gates of a temple and found the tallest palm trees I've ever seen, jutting skyward from a lush hump of jungle-covered earth in the middle of a weed-strewn lake. It looked like one of southern Thailand's tropical isles had been picked up and dropped into the middle of a paddy...