Word: skywards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Breaking Through the Algae To human eyes, the world on the eve of the Cambrian explosion would have seemed an exceedingly hostile place. Tectonic forces unleashed huge earthquakes that broke continental land masses apart, then slammed them back together. Mountains the size of the Himalayas shot skyward, hurling avalanches of rock, sand and mud down their flanks. The climate was in turmoil. Great ice ages came and went as the chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans endured some of the most spectacular shifts in the planet's history. And in one way or another, says Knoll, these dramatic upheavals helped...
...England; and associate principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. As flamboyant on the podium as his mentor Seiji Ozawa but far more probing and analytical, Nagano wields his baton with the alan of a lion tamer cracking a whip. His lank, dark hair flies, his arms soar skyward, and a broad smile crosses his face: the laid-back, almost diffident surfer dude is suddenly transformed into the happiest dervish in the world...
...night was moonless, the kind of darkness that pilots liken to flying into a black hole. On the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lieut. John ("Tuba") Gadzinski inched the F-14 Tomcat forward so a deck crewman could hook it to the catapult that would hurl the fighter skyward at 260 km/h. In the Tomcat's backseat, radar-intercept officer Lieut. (j.g.) Kristin ("Rosie") Dryfuse glanced out the cockpit to another deckhand holding a lighted box that flashed "66,000 lbs.," (30 metric tons) the plane's weight. Dryfuse circled her flashlight to signal that the weight was correct...
...California in a decade, or 500 years or 1,000, depending upon which expert is quoted. Los Angeles, used to downpours of no more than three-quarters of an inch this time of year, was drenched with 8 in. before clouds let up; bursting drainage systems shot manhole covers skyward like missiles. Whole towns were isolated. One, Guerneville, 65 miles north of San Francisco, was closed to nonresidents as the Russian River rose toward the rooftops, and 465 citizens were airlifted to higher ground. A rural community called Rio Linda, a satellite of Sacramento, was so badly betrayed...
...Skyward soar the whirling demons...