Word: sky
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...himself with hand-picked bodyguards, and rarely ventured forth. And though he courageously continued to denounce the corruption and brutality of the Rhee regime, many mem bers of Chang's own party were disappointed by the defeatist line ("I stand before you a lone duck in the autumn sky") that he took during his unsuccessful bid for re-election earlier this year. Last week, as Koreans asked why Chang had stayed silent and at home during the Seoul riots, his friends explained: "He would have liked to have been out in the streets to lead the students...
...Tiros I eye-in-the-sky satellite (TIME, April 11) is clocking 14 rotations of the earth a day, has already transmitted 6,000 photographs of all parts of the globe, including Russia and China...
Laconic Carroll Cloar tells simple tales of life beneath a sky he sees as both acid blue and searingly hot. "Behind some grass," says he of a painting called The Ambush, "there's a girl. She's kind of a plain Jane. Well, she's waiting for the boy coming down the gravel road. And she's going to get him." Simple? Cloar's scenes-a traveler silhouetted starkly against the sky, three farmers talking hopefully of the spring, two men wandering down a ghostly moonlit road past a giant sign saying, JESUS SAVES-happen...
...dangerous" whites as well, including all the top leaders of Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's little Liberal Party, except Paton himself, who commented, "I feel slightly disreputable. I must have slipped up somehow." Into the Cities. The Africans reacted like lightning crackling across the platteland sky. That afternoon a procession of 30,000 headed into Cape Town itself, chanting slogans and singing as a pink police helicopter, fluttering overhead like a nervous butterfly, radioed the throng's progress ahead to headquarters. Hastily, platoons of troops took position outside Parliament, where the legislators were debating. Carrying...
Wanting, he said, to "glorify above all things beauty and the power of the pugnacious, dominating male." D'Annunzio wrote poems praising "the sky...