Word: astern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...below the horizon, lay sleeker seamen such as Scientist Vannevar Bush, an old Pentagon hand, and Distinguished Citizen Nelson A. Rockefeller; they thought that Wilson ought to save money and step up efficiency by making some sort of single service out of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Astern of Wilson even the signals from the flagship were unclear after Dwight Eisenhower said that tighter interservice unification perhaps could produce "considerable" savings, even though the present budget was "a bare minimum...
...onto the port wing of the bridge, he saw the sight he would never forget. Before him in the dark Atlantic loomed the brightly lighted shape of a passenger liner, showing her starboard green running light, and moving fatally and majestically across Stockholm's path. "Hard starboard! Full astern!" The desperate orders rang out again in the sedate courtroom. "I saw there would come a collision," testified Carstens-Johannsen, still even-voiced, still calm. "It was a collision situation. I had to stop my ship." At 11:09 p.m. the ships collided, as he saw it, thus...
...Stockholm went to starboard to give even greater passing distance. Andrea Doria, however, suddenly closed out her red light, showed her green light and veered sharply to her own left, or port, at undiminished speed, turning across the bow of Stockholm. Stockholm immediately went hard right and full astern, but it was impossible to avoid collision...
...outfitted a KC-97F tanker with a special spray nozzle. Filled with water instead of fuel, the tanker climbs up until it reaches the proper temperature to produce water droplets, supercooled and ready - about F. Then it looses a spray that freezes on the test plane following 300 ft. astern...
Another flock of 1956 models rolled into dealers' showrooms last week -full speed astern. In ads, sales talks and posters, the automakers were putting most of the emphasis on the rear ends of their new cars. The design changes that in other years were known as face lifting, cracked a design expert, should be known this year as "tail lifting," since the major body changes were in back...