Word: dogfighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pilot can or cannot see from the cockpit. (In their first examination of a MIG-21, captured by Israel during the 1973 war, Air Force experts discovered that the pilot had limited rear vision and could not see anything directly above, a vital tip for an opponent in a dogfight...
...sharing a simple meal of vegetable curry with the inhabitants. This year she arrived by special air force turboprop and helicopter; she carried her water with her from New Delhi and, as she marched briskly between the mud huts, ankle-deep in dust, she was preceded by a running dogfight between reporters and photographers on the one hand, and her cohort of security men on the other...
Penn played inspired ball and gave Yale a see-saw dogfight before succumbing in New Haven, 24-14. The big story for the Elis was the sparkling two-touchdown running of senior halfback Don Gesicki, who powered his way to 167 rushing yards...
...Party Dogfight. Several of the strange political bedfellows seemed to like the experience. Said Prentice: "The Common Market campaign has united the majority of realistic and moderate politicians of all three parties. It has been a refreshing experience for us to work together in a common cause. I believe our cooperation has been welcomed by millions of people throughout Britain who have become fed up with the traditional party dogfight." When that encomium to cross-party cooperation brought shrill cries for his dismissal from left-wing Laborites, Prentice made it clear that he was not proposing a coalition government...
...death by fire. In the end there is nothing left for Waldo but the ultimate commercialization of his love for his craft: stunt-flying in a Hollywood war movie. There, ironically, he finally gets his chance to fly against Kessler, and, by turning a fake dogfight into the real thing, to pass into legend himself...