Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filled with sound and fury against sky-high prices last week. President Truman told businessmen that they should cut prices or another round of wage boosts was inevitable. Businessmen did not have to be told that. They were all busy telling each other the same thing...
...Norfolk Broads, the better of the two (painted in February 1946), is a melancholy landscape against a grey-green, threatening sky. One artist complained that the windmill in the painting looked "pasted on." Twin Isles, a British Columbia scene, is a splashy oil of a stretch of forest full of color-yellow, blue, and red flowers, iridescent water and a yellow sky. One professional artist, appraising the lavish use of color, said dryly that the G.G. "must get a great deal of pleasure out of painting...
MOSCOW, March 9--Secretary of State Marshall, dropping into Moscow out of a blue sky, told the Russian people today that great difficulties confronted the four-power foreign ministers at their historic conference on the future of Germany and Austria, but that he was confident of agreement...
...violent, muffled rattle split the still morning air over the English Channel. "That ain't no gun-testing," said Skipper Gregson, gripping the wheel of the tiny patrol boat and staring into the sky. Seaman Snowy, 16, whose eyes and ears were sharp, stood at the rail, cried suddenly: "There's a plane out there! Two planes." "Go on!" mocked Jimmy, engineer and third man of the Breadwinner's crew. "I can hear [a Messerschmitt]," Snowy shouted. "What was the other [plane]?" Gregson asked. "They both gone now," said the boy sadly. But, half an hour later...
...little chain of three California papers and five radio stations), had a bright little idea for making the drones work better. She had recorded music piped in: loud and animated in the composing room, soft and restful in the city room. One sour newsman, after hearing out Ole Buttermilk Sky, said it didn't do a thing for his writing...