Word: skyrocketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ward off the sun, which can skyrocket the temperature up to 240° F., the camera is equipped with a highly polished bottom and a top cover treated with heat-resistant paint. It operates on only 6.5 watts of power-less than that used by a household night light. Though it cost about $400,000, the camera is as disposable as an aluminum beer can. Sad to say, this tough little minibrute was destined to be left behind on the surface of the moon...
...blazes on Majorca for ten months of the year. It lights the baked forms with a harsh kind of super-reality. The sallow leaves of a dead cactus writhe upward like a petrified fountain. A palm hangs against the sky like a bursting skyrocket. On the ground, a beetle crawls. Above it, crouches a man - no figment of a dream but a com pact figure with grey thinning hair, a potato nose, and dressed all in sober brown. "Once," he "I was passionate about insects. I painted many of them." In fact, he still does...
April 20: Applications for 36 off-off-campus places skyrocket from...
...this came only one predictable thing about unpredictable Howard Hughes: if he has his way, Las Vegas property values will skyrocket...
...always, the carnival atmosphere was frenetic. One contessa's elegant evening of black-tie art patronage wound up with frugging into the wee hours until neighbors, annoyed at the noise, pelted the windows with pebbles. Artist Francois Dallegret, who fashions fantastic automobiles, decked himself out like a skyrocket in a whiz-bang blazer of multicolored baby bunting. A Japanese clothed all in bright green staged a sort of Zen happening (a Jappening?) by sitting down right in the middle of Piazza San Marco, but by then everyone was too sated and wilted by the heat to care...