Word: aloftness
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Bush had volunteered to take the place of an ailing artillery spotter. For staying aloft 2½hours despite intense antiaircraft fire, he was awarded a Bronze Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...pistes may be closed, and whole villages may be evacuated on a word from the Weissfluhjoch. Even the Swiss air force checks with the institute before sending its supersonic Mirages aloft during the avalanche season, seeking reassurance that sonic booms will not cause unsuspecting villagers to be engulfed in a deadly white tide...
...Rampino's costumes manage to establish with ruthless clarity the interrelationship (emotional, political, sexual) of this curious pastiche of characters. The Blacks-the suppressed minority, whether sexual deviants, freethinking criminals, disgruntled lackeys-all consort to overthrow the Establishment, symbolized by the Queen, the Judge and the Governor, perched high aloft the stage on a wooden scaffold, At center stage sits the draped coffin of a white woman, supposedly massacred by the Blacks...
...created havoc. Biafran civilians piled pots, pans, clothing, radios and washtubs atop their heads and fled before the federal troops. One priest who flew out shortly afterward saw evacuees from a Biafran hospital hobbling down a road with intravenous needles still stuck in their arms and glucose bottles held aloft so the fluid could drip down. "The roads were choked with people," another priest recalled. "I could see terror in their faces." The exodus reminded him of an Ibo proverb: "A man who is running for his life never gets tired." But some did; they sat down along the road...
...when he walked into a fashionable party where all but he were in formal dress, took in the situation at a glance and said reassuringly: "Now I don't want anyone to feel embarrassed." He has it still, dapper in a brown dinner jacket, hand elegantly holding aloft the perpetual cigarette, answering a request for a definition of the perfect life with a single word: "Mine...