Word: detachment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large tearful family to witness every crash, while the Japanese entry (Yujiro Ishihara) pilots a loose assemblage of box kites driven by kamikaze impulses. The flyer in everyone's ointment is England's villainous Sir Percy (Terry-Thomas), who sends his man to saw away struts or detach landing gear on rival planes, a tactic that leads to many a droll mid-air crisis...
...with his 1919 encounter with the Dada movement, he made art out of stamps, trademarks, slogans, coins, buttons, torn-up photographs and headlines, used for punning or oblique meanings. He hunted bric-a-brac in the streets, even carried a small screwdriver, which he once was caught using to detach a "Rauchen Verboten" sign from the back of a streetcar...
...Love You." Cullen's rescue was a dramatic but by no means unique example of a highly effective U.S. operation in Viet Nam. Since last October, when the Fifth Air Rescue Detach ment was set up at South Viet Nam's Danang airbase with Albatrosses and H43-F "Huskie" helicopters, as many as 15 U.S. and South Vietnamese pilots have been plucked from Red-infested jungles in Viet Nam and Laos and from waters off the coast; the exact figure is classified. In the series of raids against North Viet Nam since last Feb. 7, the efficient rescuers...
...spends the next 60 to 70 days in its mother's pouch, firmly and continuously attached to her breast. During that period, it grows and behaves much as a human embryo in normal gestation. Marquardt researchers are already well acquainted with the opossum, having learned how to detach the tiny fetus from the mother's breast to feed it artificially. Mixing drugs with the food, the researchers should be able to observe firsthand their effects on a growing fetus...
When the erratic Aaron Burr started recruiting men in Louisiana for some mysterious purpose, most likely an invasion of Mexico, Jefferson panicked. He feared that Burr meant to seize New Orleans and detach the Western U.S. Though Burr had been cleared by a federal grand jury, Jefferson pronounced him guilty of treason and had him arrested. When Chief Justice John Mar shall refused to hold Burr on a treason charge for lack of evidence, Jefferson demanded a constitutional amendment making federal judges removable by the President...