Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mouth of a cave Hanging your orphan's rags I saw you in the stalls, in the streets Warming your self by the fire I saw you in the lamentations of misery In blood dripping from the sun In the salt of the sea and the sand and yet You were as beautiful as the earth As children...
...disastrous floods over the past year. In cleared jungles in Mexico, Guatemala and Brazil, heavy rains quickly leached the nutrients from the thin layer of topsoil, rendering the land infertile within a year or two. (The trees had both anchored and nourished the soil.) In other cleared jungles, the sun burned out the soil's valuable organic content...
...climatologists suspect that global temperature changes could stem from wobbles in the earth's rotation that alter the amount of sunlight striking the surface. Some think that there may even be subtle changes in the earth's orbit, which would increase or decrease the distance from the sun...
...provides specific judgment on everything from a collapsing derrick to a pretty girl at lunchtime. And I stayed on top of the Knights of Columbus building one afternoon after the work day was over, watching the tankers on New Haven Harbor turn slowly into black bugs as the sun went down behind Fisher's Island, while the man beside me, previously known to me only as a loquacious idiot, stood for half an hour stock-still with his mouth shut...
...sun set, (the game had begun late), the freshmen attempted a comeback that produced two scoring opportunities, a break away and a two-on-one, but not the tying goal...