Word: aloftness
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...company calculates that the average freshly broiled steak dinner served aloft costs...
...begin in 1971 with a 28-day flight by three men-one a doctor. These vehicles are only forerunners of a giant space station that NASA plans to orbit by the late 1970s. The first station will probably accommodate twelve people, including the first American spacewoman. It will remain aloft for at least ten years, with crew members rotated every six months...
...graceful brick archway frames a wooden door, silvery with age. Near the center of the door are two small peepholes that open onto a beguiling scene. There, lying on a bed of twigs and leaves is a delicate three-dimensional nude, her legs spread provocatively, her left hand holding aloft a glowing amber lamp, her head obscured save for one golden curl that flutters onto her shoulder. Beyond is a landscape in full autumn splendor, a small pond, a shimmering waterfall...
...issue has divided husband and wife, inspired countless heated arguments at social occasions and engendered public controversy from coast to coast. As if on a holy crusade, the strikers stage marches that resemble religious pilgrimages, bearing aloft their own stylized black Aztec eagle on a red field along with images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, patroness of Mexicans...
...case Washington did not get the message, Thieu was saying much the same thing on visits to the two other most staunchly anti-Communist countries of Asia, South Korea and Taiwan. In Seoul, as balloons held aloft huge Vietnamese and Korean flags, he warned against "a false peace, a counterfeit peace." South Korea's tough President Chung Hee Park, who has sent 50,000 of his own men to South Viet Nam, agreed with his guest that a coalition with the Viet Cong was out of the question and that recognition of the legitimacy of the present government would...