Word: airman
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Flight surgeons watch and worry over pilots like mechanics prowling over planes. They welcome any chance to see into the dark corners of the mind of a pilot in trouble. Such a chance came when a South Pacific airman, safe after a rugged ride, sat down and put his psychological experiences on paper...
...surfaced, slowly drew close to the yellow raft. Crewmen on the deck saw that the airman was sound asleep under his rubber sheet. From a distance of six feet, a subman bellowed...
...airman woke with such a start that he fell overboard. He was speedily rescued...
...people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated. A pilot still full of fight might find himself, restless and bored, in an instructor's job. Another, "browned off" by the strain of too many combat missions, might better be given a ground assignment. Many an airman thought (and angrily said) that as a highly and expensively trained individual he should have some say in his future...
...bolt & nut man for the Cottonwood Apartments, where "opium smoking is not permitted in the corridors." When Maisie tries to prevent this assignation, Iris denounces her for sabotage. But Iris winds up with a wastebasket rammed over her head, while Maisie winds up in the arms of her airman...