Word: low-level
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...high the bomb can be tossed depends on many factors, some of which are secret. When flying very low, the airplane cannot use its top speed because the bumpiness of low-level air would keep it from making a steady bombing run. But it flies pretty fast nevertheless, and if it is flying at 500 m.p.h. (733 ft. per second) when the bomb is released, the bomb starts its curve with the muzzle velocity of an 81-mm. mortar shell, whose range is two miles...
Mental Fig Leaves. Hero Brad is a paper shuffler at SHAEF, and a first lieutenant. Haunted by the glacial respectability of his New England future after the war, he wants to have an adulterous fling while he can. But his low-level imaginings rarely embrace anything more than a brief, businesslike interlude with a party girl. Instead he meets Val, the grave-eyed brunette daughter of an invalided British brigadier, fully Jane's social opposite number and twice as good-looking. They fall immediately and desperately in love, and exchange guilty confidences about his wife and her friend Wynter...
...cold war," he said, "will largely be fought on economic battlegrounds . . . The uncommitted nations, dissatisfied with their ancient poverty, where half the people go to bed hungry every night, are waiting to see whether we or the Communists offer the best chance of shifting from their present low-level to a high-level economy. The U.S. and our western European allies cannot, in the long run, remain an island of prosperity in a sea of poverty. Nor do we want...
...ships patrol offshore for added warning. Spot local radar nets have been built around critical targets-SAC bases, nuclear weapons centers and great cities. Mostly, the radar line is string-thin. Sometimes stations are closed for repairs. Usually, the radars are beamed high for maximum range, leaving gaps for low-level attack...
...after completing a tour of operations in Halifax bombers, he became the youngest group captain (equals U.S. colonel) in the R.A.F. He had himself demoted to wing commander so that he could take over command of the famed 617 Squadron, nicknamed "The Dam-Busters." where he developed a new low-level technique of marking targets. After more than 100 missions, he won Britain's highest decoration, the Victoria Cross...