Word: detachment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another system would require a plane of odd design, putting the cockpit in the rear just ahead of the tail surfaces (see drawing). When the pilot wanted to bail out, he would detach the whole tail-and-cockpit. The plane would fly on, while the tail cone pulled a parachute from behind the pilot's seat. When it had slowed the cockpit to a safe speed, the pilot could bail out with his own parachute...
...Many . . . classified as psychopathic personalities have made creditable records in combat aviation. Flying offers special fascination to ... a schizoid makeup. These people whose desire [it is] to detach themselves from reality . . . find an ideal situation in the air. It is almost as if their actual fantasies were being lived out.. . . Expressions such as 'I get a feeling of power,' or 'It seems as though the world were at my feet,' are common in this type of flyer...
...Detach my blue brain. Give me drinking water. Look out for the 'mountains. Think of arsenic. Change the yellow ink. Remember last year. Remember the heat. We spit in the air and the nightingales spit...
...feel in the theaters. Chekhov's line near the end of The Three Sisters, "Tomorrow . . . a new life will begin for us," brings tears to Russian eyes. That is their real hope now. And yet, this confidence is not unmixed with uneasiness. The Russian theater knows it cannot detach itself from politics in the largest sense of the word. The other day Leonid Leonov suddenly broke off a discussion of play writing to say with great emotion: "But if in the world of tomorrow a three-year-old girl may be shot, as I have seen one shot...
...force commander of Halsey's Third Fleet, Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher leads more big flattops and escorting warships than any other man in history. In the midst of one great air battle over the Philippines, Mitscher ordered one baby carrier and a couple of destroyer escorts to detach themselves from his huge armada and go off on an errand. The captain of the baby radioed to Mitscher: "Am proceeding in accordance with your orders. You are now on your...