Word: nosedive
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The Air Cav tactic of leap and smash was perfected in 53 major operations-more than one a week-that ranged from the la Drang Valley ("the Valley of Death," as the division remembers it) to the Bong Son Plains, hard by the South China Sea. Its 430 choppers, flying...
Sure, a lot of Molly's monologues in Ulysses are not for sodality teas, but the people filming the book in Dublin are not anxious to refight that long court battle of some 35 years ago about whether James Joyce's brilliant book was also unspeakably dirty. Nor...
Soon, the two candidates decided to cool their connections. Ellington found that the conservatives to whom he was appealing for support cared very little about Lyndon Johnson-or any other Democrat, for that matter. Hooker found himself under attack as an agent of "outside forces" trying to intervene in Tennessee...
The U.S. Air Force rates Lockheed's needle-nosed F-104 as its finest interceptor. But in West Germany, the Starfighter has won a different label: "the flying coffin."
It was siesta time in Viet Nam's clammy cities as the droop-nosed F-4 Phantom jets snapped off the U.S.S. Ranger's dipping flight deck. Next into the crystalline sky burst four flights of A-4 Skyhawks. Then the mission, 45 planes strong, streaked low across...