Word: backwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dangerous Wildcats. Britain's government leaders have often mismanaged the economy, and its executives have often been unimaginative, but Britons themselves are increasingly blaming their productivity plight on the backward-looking trade unions, which count 9,900,000 members. Mired in a Depression-era mentality and still committed to the concept of class struggle, many unionists have an inexplicable fear that the grim layoffs of the 1930s will reoccur. They are not likely to. In Scotland alone, there are now 154 jobs available for every 100 men looking for work, and unemployment throughout Britain is at a ten-year...
...film that did survive was remarkable nonetheless. With their ship facing backward during its return into the earth's atmosphere, the astronauts took some vivid color movies of a sheath of gases glowing with purple, blue and green incandescence as it was heated by the friction of the spacecraft's passage. They were the first re-entry photographs ever taken. As Gemini plunged into denser atmosphere, the colors increased in brilliance: a sharply defined blue shock wave expanded, and hot, golden fragments ripped loose from the glowing heat shield to shoot past the window in a dazzling stream...
...modified version, it has become the prototype of an eight-legged, walking wheelchair now being evaluated by the University of California at Los Angeles for the use of handicapped children. The boxy gadget resembles an ungainly bug; yet it is capable of sophisticated locomotion. It can travel forward or backward, turn in its own length, climb steps, a 30° slope and an 8-in. curb, cross rough fields, and literally get a toehold in sand or muddy ground that usually bogs down a wheeled vehicle...
...cycle model, which is powered by hot gases shooting out of rotor-tip vents. Beyond that come bizarre crossbreeds intended to graft the convenience of helicopters to the greater speed and durability of conventional planes. Ling-Temco-Vought's tilt-wing XC-142A can fly straight up, backward at 35 m.p.h. or forward at 400 m.p.h. Lockheed, a relative newcomer to the field, is building an odd-looking hybrid called the AAFSS (for Advanced Aerial Fire Support System) with stubby wings, a pusher propeller and rotor blades to give the Army more close-support firepower than...
...rear-engine Offenhauser through one practice lap at 159.9 m.p.h.; now he was trying to top that. Drifting through the speedway's No. 1 turn, he was suddenly blinded by a bit of rag or paper that blew into his face. The car spun wildly, slid 450 ft. backward into the wall so violently that the starting shaft penetrated 5 in. into the concrete. Rodee died of a ruptured aorta-the 30th driver fatality at Indy...