Word: aloftness
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...Bryant's appointee as Turnpike Authority chairman. While on the job, Hammer stayed at a $65-a-day hotel room, paid as much as $30 a day to eat, and put corsages for his secretary on the tab. He chartered a plane, and charged taxpayers for more hours aloft than the plane was actually flown. Under Hammer's loose hand, headlined the Times, a $100 million road had stretched to $400 million...
Then the white-garbed clown gets into a harness himself, and, as he is hoisted aloft, the magician stabs him, the racist throws baseballs at him, and he is beaten by an irate sideshow barker. The cries of his death agony shatter the sound track. In a silence that follows, three empty harnesses dangle from their ropes, and the remorseful Magnus goes to put white makeup on his face. In the final scene an all-white figure is riding the donkey as the circus moves on. Is it the clown-or the puppeteer-or Everyman-or Christ...
Scanning the Seaboard. Radar surveillance planes, which had lumbered aloft earlier, stayed up during the presidential flight to scan the area for strange aircraft. Submarines and destroyers at sea were ordered to keep a close watch on their radar screens. Air Force and Navy all-weather planes patrolled every possible air corridor from Cuba to Florida and up the East Coast. Army antiaircraft installations were at the ready. Along the whole Eastern seaboard, dozens of fighter pilots sat on alert in their cockpits...
...hurried onto one and all three taxied to the runway. With him, as they had been on the flight down, were his wife and daughters. As the planes went they weaved in and out among one another, making it almost impossible to tell which plane was Johnson's. Aloft, the 707s picked up the same mighty escort...
...interesting to note that in the photograph of Kwame Nkrumah he is holding aloft an egg. This is one of his favorite symbols, "the egg of power." If one holds it too lightly, it will drop and smash; if one holds it too hard, it will break in one's hand. Osagyefo, of course, says that he knows exactly how to hold...