Word: midair
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Once more she floated by. Toscanini's birch baton stopped in midair, his left arm was raised in a gesture of supplication. Then he dropped both arms to his sides, jutted his square chin forward, lowered his head. The orchestra gave...
...talks stopped in midair. And at week's end the only important people concerned with the Galápagos Archipelago were the G.I.s, who had been there for more than two years. They contemplated the giant tortoises, some of whom had been there 200 years...
...correspondents further guessed that foo-fighters were intended: 1) to dazzle pilots; 2) to serve as aiming points for antiaircraft gunners; 3) to interfere with a plane's radar; 4) to cut a plane's ignition, thus stop its engine in midair...
...instead of landing behind Russian lines they had to turn back in midair and strain their way back to England. In this and four other beyond-Berlin strikes, 31 bombers and eight fighters were lost. Toward Marienburg, East Prussia, the fighters put in their longest mission; they escorted the bombers all except the last 100 miles...
TIME'S story on abortions (March 6) ended sadly, in midair. After shocking its readers quite justifiably about the estimated 1,000,000 abortions in the U.S. each year, then pointing out that police raids are no more a cure than they were for bootlegging, TIME sighs and says that no one has yet figured out the answer to such questions...