Word: cloudless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full moon, brilliant on a cloudless night, can humble even the most heroic of monuments. By Manhattan's Central Park, the seven American soldiers seem frozen in World War I. The men in the middle of the squad have bayonets ready for battle. One is injured but willing; another, caught in the arms of a comrade, is in the swoon of death. PRO PATRIA ET GLORIA--"For country and glory"--their motto reads in granite, barely legible. The infantrymen rise 15 ft. above the ground, an altitude that is microcosmic from the distance of the Sea of Tranquility. SIC TRANSIT...
...just look at this," she exclaimed, drawing her hand from the towers of the Boston skyline-with the cloudless sky as its backdrop-toward the towers of Harvard. "Just totally spectacular," she said...
...just look at this," she exclaimed, drawing her hand from the towers of the Boston skyline--with the cloudless sky as its backdrop--toward the towers of Harvard. "Just totally spectacular...
...about midnight when the astronomy buffs gathered atop Arizona's 7,000-ft. Kitt Peak spotted the first shooting stars streaking across the cloudless night sky. Then, slowly, the glowing trails began to multiply. Twenty an hour, then 30 and 40, until at 5 a.m. the sky erupted in a furious but eerily silent meteor storm that brightened the sky like a pyrotechnic grand finale. Some of the spectators instinctively shielded their faces, startled by the sensation of hurtling headlong into a cloud of flashing debris. An hour--and some 140,000 meteors--later, it was largely over; the storm...
CAPE CANAVERAL: John Glenn is back in space. After a couple of last-minute glitches ? a minor air pressure alarm in the cockpit and a couple of private aircraft in the vicinity ? space shuttle Discovery blasted off a mere 20 minutes behind schedule on an otherwise clear, cloudless launch day. "I feel like a kid at his first Christmas," President Clinton said earlier as he watched from the roof of the John F. Kennedy Space Center. He wasn?t alone. Millions of visitors had flocked to the Cape, hoping to catch a little bit of the Glenn magic. And Glenn...