Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full of information, and the pilot has been briefed to head for a landmark just short of the target. As he approaches it, he levels and steadies the plane's flight and flicks a switch. LABS takes charge of the airplane; it pulls the plane up in a climb so steep that the pilot almost blacks out. When the angle is just right, LABS releases the atom bomb, which separates from the airplane and soars in a rising trajectory (see diagram). As soon as he is able, the pilot resumes control...
...even more spectacular type of loft-bombing is used when there is no good landmark to sight on near the target. In such cases, the pilot sets his LABS apparatus for "over the shoulder" bombing, and pulls up into his climb when he is directly over the target. LABS does not release the bomb until the climbing curve has progressed a little beyond the vertical. When the bomb leaves the airplane, it rises in an almost vertical trajectory. It is not quite vertical, however. To compensate for the horizontal distance that the airplane covered after it passed over the target...
...most uneven. The first third is little more than competent chronicle play; it is not till the second third that it becomes vibrantly Shavian; and not till the final third that it grows demonstrably great. At the Phoenix a generally torpid production stressed the play's long, slow climb before achieving-in the Trial Scene and the Epilogue-one of the great peaks of 20th century stage writing...
...bill and heavy losses from its commuters (who fondly call it the "Delay, Linger & Wait," but appreciate its on-time trains) helped drag the road to a $1,000,000 deficit last year. But its freight business between New Jersey and Buffalo is so good that the Lackawanna will climb back into the black...
...more he thought about it, the more Carlin liked the idea. It seemed "a nice exercise in technology, masochism and chance−a form of sport." He went to the U.S., bought an amphibious jeep in Maryland, named her Half Safe, tuned her up, told his wife Elinore to climb aboard, and headed for Canada. After four false starts he got to Montreal. Two years later he was ready to tool down the roads at a gay clip, and when he hit the seashore he kept right on going−splashing toward the Azores...