Word: skywards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real-possibility are centered in the pleasant resort town of Colorado Springs. There, in a two-story blockhouse, grey and windowless, is a huge Plexiglas map on which the position of any strange plane sighted anywhere over North America is immediately plotted. Within two minutes, two jet interceptors scramble skyward with orders to identify the unknown aircraft-or shoot it down...
...Bacninh in the delta, some 20 miles northeast of Hanoi, TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin asked the Vietnamese governor if he would leave. "If I stay here with the Communists," the governor replied, pointing skyward, "I shall stay forever-up there." Then what would happen to Bacninh's anti-Communist villagers? "We are lost. The Viet Minh will exert pressure against the families and the village elders. It will be easy for the Communists. They are the victors. Who can resist the victors...
Frenzy's Snarl. Successive blasts jolted Chestertown for a full 50 minutes; then, for four hours, rockets sporadically whistled skyward and briefly flashed. Some townsfolk had seen a jet plane, or two, or three, flying over seconds before the first detonation. Others watched the grey cloud rise from the plant and thought it looked mushroom-shaped. Mothers gathered their children, put the little ones into baby buggies and trundled them through traffic across the Chester River Bridge. There Chestertown's southbound refugees tangled with rescuers headed north-civil defense disaster units, firemen and police from neighboring towns...
This week Boeing's new 707 is scheduled to speed down the runway, and go skyward on her maiden flight...
...usually coatless and with shirtsleeves rolled high, Walter Packard worked side by side with his Greek friends. In a few weeks, the dubious villagers who came down each evening at dusk to watch work on the newly flooded paddyfields were rewarded with the sight of tender green shoots reaching skyward. "It was like a miracle from the gods," said one of them...