Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...green-clad "invaders," a U.S. armored force, struck from the borders of Soviet-held East Germany and Czechoslovakia, forced back the British ist Royal Dragoons, Algerian troops from the French zone, and miscellaneous U.S. forces including regiments hastily summoned from Austria and Trieste. French, British and American planes whined overhead. Even the U.S. Navy joined in, with small craft on the Rhine. After retreating, the defenders were scheduled to "regroup" and then wage a "victorious counterattack...
...Beautiful, Harry!" In our flight there were six dive bombers, carrying a total of some 18,000 Ibs. of bombs. High overhead we had eight Corsairs flying cover. We moved in on the railroad marshaling yards just southwest of Seoul, a wide scar in the countryside filled with railroad tracks and cars...
...born of necessity. Lacking big budgets, elaborate equipment and big-name talent, they are forced to shortcut the elaborate. They specialize in what they call "simplified realism" and "ad-lib drama." By banning studio audiences they can use the four walls of every set; short on cameras, booms and overhead trolleys, they never switch from one camera to another without a good reason...
Atomic bombs might be exploded in the air over U.S. cities, under water, or at ground level. Though the effects are different in each case, the principle is the same. At the instant a bomb explodes overhead, fission turns it into a rapidly growing "ball of fire," which dims for an imperceptible instant, then grows to a diameter of 900 feet at a temperature of 7,000° C. (see diagram). Around the fire ball forms a shock wave - a shell of air compressed so tightly that it glows white...
...wildly up & down inside. Then, with the courage of a Dumbo but without air-force ears, she plunged through the car door into open space. A few minutes later circus attendants rounded Tuffi up as she sprawled shocked but uninjured in the bed of the Wupper 18 feet below. Overhead dangled the wreckage of the flying tram, still filled with Tuffi's startled fellow passengers...