Word: mid-air
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...letter to his "hundreds of friends and supporters," the M.I.T. professor demanded a decision "one way or the other. I dislike thoroughly being suspended in mid-air...
Unfortunately "Arrow in The Blue" ends in mid-air, just when the writer has joined the party. It is the first of two volumes on the Koestler story. If this one was not too much of a catharsis for the author, the sequel should make as exciting and valuable reading...
...mid-air contest between a piloted aircraft and a well-designed guided missile, the former has no more than a 50-50 chance of surviving. The missile will always have a speed and maneuverability advantage because the aircraft must be designed around human limitations . . . If it takes two $100,000 missiles to destroy a million-dollar bomber, hadn't we better reassess the latter's real strategic value? . . . Control of the air will shortly pass from piloted aircraft to antiaircraft guided missiles [and then] the piloted aircraft will cease to have tactical significance except for noncombat employment...
Konitz stopped playing--leaving a couple of notes hanging in mid-air. He pulled up the microphone and spoke: "We're going to play something I wrote with Lennie Tristano called . . . I'm sorry, I don't think we gave it a name...
...describe? Could it be that some forsake the ways of the Pharisees and do not seek to conform to whatever this "Yale Man" is that you mention (and of which no one I know has heard) I Could it be that your writers operated from a Socratic basket in mid-air, trying to make the worse appear the better analysis...