Word: phantomed
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...external source of weaponry would only reduce Egypt's incentive to negotiate seriously with Israel, directly or otherwise. There is also the internal U.S. situation to consider; last year no fewer than 81 of the 100 members of the Senate demanded that Washington ship the Israelis all of the Phantom jets they had requested...
...well. There is the household's current live-in corpse, a perhaps 80-year-old woman, who hobbles in and out of the living room with the aid of her metal walking frame throughout the first act: she is a gray vegetable who says nothing, a fleshed-out phantom who serves as a grim reminder of the truly horrible facts of life that may be only a little further around the corner for this pathetic family. Zindel has also fashioned a dramatic structure that allows for no fat; the action moves at breakneck pace and the whole evening lasts only...
...Phantom jet has become a workhorse of the Viet Nam War. More than 4.000 of them have been produced so far, and the McDonnell Douglas executives optimistically expect the total to reach 5,000 before the planes become obsolescent. That hope may well come true, especially since the West German government announced last week that it plans to shift away from the accident-plagued Lockheed Starfighter and buy $1 billion worth of Phantoms...
That the ARVN withdrawal was not yet a rout was due very largely to U.S. airpower. Day after day, B-52s, F-4 Phantoms and F-100s, flying as many strike sorties for the Lam Son operation alone as they ordinarily stage in all of Indochina, kept the battlefield under incessant barrage. Giant B-52s, used like Phantom jets for close ground support, pursued North Vietnamese soldiers through jungle and elephant grass, dropping their 30,000-lb. bomb loads as close as 600 yards to allied positions. Everywhere ARVN soldiers went, they stumbled upon phalanxes of enemy bodies, or survivors...
Married couples are as free as fencers. In the thrust and parry, each partner pinks the other, helping to drain away the anger and frustration that might otherwise fester within and poison the self. But the divorced person shadowboxes with a vivid phantom, the past. He or she is bound to an enemy that cannot be hit or flattened-memory. For the divorced, recollection is impacted pain. Regrets, bitterness, envy, hate stalk the mind...