Word: veils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night sky is never completely black. Even when the moon is down, the stars and nebulae give off some light. And that small glow is equalled by a chilly, luminous layer far out in space which surrounds the earth like a diaphanous green veil...
Though what Cooper saw in the green veil was no surprise to scientists, the astronaut did manage to jolt them with another discovery. As he passed over South America, Cooper caught a glimpse of a thin, barely visible rust-colored layer roughly 70 miles higher than the green stratum he had been searching for. His sighting confirmed an earlier report by Astronaut Wally Schirra, and scientists now suspect the green veil may be topped by a red one made up of photochemically stimulated atomic oxygen...
...country still ruled in spirit, if not in fact, by the reactionary mullahs. Bands of wolves prowl openly through the unpaved streets of the capital city of Kabul (pronounced cobble). Native women are seldom seen out of doors, and Western women who appear in the bazaar without wearing a veil are attacked and spat upon...
...heady inhalation of the summer, we are shocked with the rude fact of the world about us: moving books and bricks is brutal labor; traveling is vouchsafed us or forbidden; the world beckons with one hand and slaps our cheek with the other. Tremble not: the surreal veil of summer job, summer school, and summer love will soon fall around us and keep us safe until the fall...
Dressed in dark suit and grey tie, and accompanied by his wife Rada in black veil and grey suit, Adzhubei showed up with other reporters in the Vatican's gilded throne room, listened as the Pope spoke of the church's positive neutrality in the cold war, bowed his head when John gave his blessing. "A beautiful speech," said Adzhubei, who throughout his visit to Rome proudly labeled himself a "confirmed atheist...