Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...close to the U.S. embassy. Most of the shells impacted in a densely populated refugee area. Fanned by gusting winds, flames raced through flimsy wood-and-straw huts in a fire storm so intense that a huge pall of smoke almost blotted out Phnom-Penh's bright afternoon sun. The attack took a heavy toll: at least 140 dead, 200 wounded, more than 1,000 homes destroyed and 10,000 people homeless...
...astronauts were delighted to be home. During the ride from the airport, Carr remained glued to the car window, gazing intently at the people, the houses and the greenery. Gibson quickly asked his wife Julie to join him in a walk. "I want to see the trees, feel the sun, hear the birds," he explained. "It's so nice to run again on the 'good earth...
...mountain, braking every 20 yards or so, and had stopped on the road that ran just outside Morochata. I put my knapsack on my back and was pointed toward the restaurant where I was to meet my contact. There, seated at a table in an interior patio where the sun shone strongly, sat Padre Ray Herman...
That evening, after the sun had set and the center of the city shone in the expansive electric light that almost explodes in the rarefied night air, I left my hotel and the flickering outdoor food kiosks of the Indian Quarter to eat dinner with some Westerners I'd met in a cafe earlier that day. The main streets of the downtown area were quiet now, in contrast to the bustle of the tourists, businessmen, cocaine-pushers (La Paz is the cocaine capital of the world). I walked past the neon signs of the restaurants and clubs that dotted...
Afternoon sun streamed into the large, formal drawing room, softly burnishing the exquisite antique furniture and brightening the fresh cut flowers. The two aging men sat by a blazing fire, chatting easily. Getty, though suffering from Parkinson's disease and internal ailments, still can show flashes of the aggressiveness that built an oil empire. He speaks slowly and deliberately. Lindbergh is hale and well tanned. He looks his role-dedicated environmentalist and exponent of slow, carefully planned industrial growth...