Word: kill
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Mass & Quality. About this time, a more than usually friendly battlewagon officer said to the bold young pilot: "Raddy, you guys are crazy to fly those airplanes like that. You're going to kill yourself one day with an engine failure." Raddy replied: "Look, sir, if we're going to accomplish anything in naval aviation, we can't reckon on engine failure. We have to think of these planes as being good enough to stay...
Among the guns and fire-control apparatus of the after-section are eight inviting bunks. But at high altitude nobody is allowed to "sack out." Reason: an accidental pressure failure would fill the cabin with a frigid blue haze, and the loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs...
Then Squadron Leader Louis Sebille wheeled his Mustang around in the Korean sky, and bore down for the kill. With him he took himself, his plane, and a whole truckload of the enemy...
...probable toll would be much like that at Hiroshima (70,000 killed, 70,000 injured). Within 3,000 feet of the burst, 80% died. At 4,500 feet the mortality rate was down to 50%, at 6,500 it was 15%. Some U.S. cities in business hours have 150,000 to 250,000 people in the four-fifths of a square mile covered by the half-mile radius. An air burst over them would kill many more than died at Hiroshima...
...night the Reds attacked steadily from dusk until dawn. "They don't make sense," said Davis. "We kill 'em and kill 'em and they still keep coming. We captured one that night and he was drunk. They must all be drunk...