“The hawks favored an air strike to eliminate the Cuban missile bases. The doves opposed the air strike and favored a blockade.”

Must We Go to War? (1937)
Context: Bombardment, air raid and blockade constitute the most revolting forms of atrocity because they are not deeds of violence committed under the momentary, blinding influence of fear or passion, but are deliberately premeditated processes of devastation, mutilation and slaughter of men, women and children without regard to guilt or responsibility.

Source: Confessor (2007), published by Tor Books

The Witch (1616), Act v. Sc. 2. "I ’ll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round", Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act iv. Sc. 1.

Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. I : Apprentice, The Twelve-Inch Rule and Common Gavel, p. 1
Context: Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself. It is destruction and ruin. It is the volcano, the earthquake, the cyclone; — not growth and progress. It is Polyphemus blinded, striking at random, and falling headlong among the sharp rocks by the impetus of his own blows.

&quot;Taking spotlight, Ukrainian first lady pleads for more US arms&quot; https://www.kbtx.com/2022/07/20/showing-wars-toll-ukrainian-first-lady-appeals-more-arms/, KPTX/AP, 20 July 2022 <br class="br">Address to the US Congress (20 July 2022)

Source: The Bone House (2011), p. 20

Goldman v. Weinberger, 475 U.S. 503 (1986) (majority opinion); the ruling upheld the military's prohibition of a Jewish officer from wearing a yarmulke indoors while in uniform.
Judicial opinions

The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 16 - p.147 [Zellaby]