Word: jettisoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there chasing MIGs. We are trying to put bombs on targets." So far, those targets have not included MIG airfields themselves, since Washington does not yet consider them worth the risk of enlarging the war. But if air opposition reached the point where U.S. planes were constantly forced to jettison their bombloads in order to defend themselves before reaching their targets, then the Air Force would be all for a shift in tactics-if the White House permitted it. "The MIGs," says one high-ranking Air Force officer in Washington, "would have to be taken out either...
...from being a man talking his way toward atheism, and his reductionist theologizing is seriously intended to help put Christian faith on a surer, sounder footing. What Christianity needs, Pike proposes, is "more belief, fewer beliefs." In the name of this jaunty slogan, Pike seems quite willing to jettison 20 centuries of Christian doctrinal development, if necessary, to preserve and emphasize what he considers the central, essential and irreducible message of the church: God as the loving personal ground of existence, Jesus as the suffering servant in whom God is seen as "breaking through," and whose self-giving life...
...burn, turning sections of the flight deck above into a sizzling skillet. Choking clouds of dense, dirty-grey smoke poured through seven decks of the Oriskany's forward sections. Two more blasts sent flames belching along the flight deck, where red-shirted ordnance experts worked feverishly to jettison 500-lb., 1,000-lb.and 2,000-lb. bombs they dumped dozens overboard into...
While forever warning their patients to shun unnecessary risks, doctors seem to jettison their own advice as soon as they take up flying. In 1964-65, reports the Federal Aviation Agency, 30 U.S. physician pilots died in crashes; in ten cases, the doctors' families died with them. As a result, flying doctors had a fatal-accident rate four times as high as the average for all other private pilots...
...issues. There was good reason, he believes, to support Diem at the beginning. The man seemed vigorous and dedicated, and the entire population--not only the Catholic refugees from the North--seemed reluctant to accept Communist rule from Hanoi. But, partly because the U.S. failed to pressure Diem to jettison the Nhus, the political situation in South Vietnam is now thoroughly muddled. Harlech feels it is now time for the U.S. to concentrate its resources--political, diplomatic, and military--on one goal: getting out--with "honor," but also with some speed...