Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varying the speed of the engines, and the plane is kept on an even keel by juggling the air jets. When it is clear of obstacles, Pilot Howe gets his nose down and picks up flying speed. Then he swivels the engines so that their thrust is directed backward. This maneuver takes about 15 seconds, and when it is complete, the VTOL is flying horizontally like a normal jet plane...
...pilot," he says, "merely selects the spot where he wants to land. He brings the VTOL to a hovering position-and lands." According to him, the VTOL is as at home in the air as a dragonfly. It can hover indefinitely, its engines blasting downward. It can fly backward and sideways and spin like a waltzing mouse...
...unconscious to the conscious, a man feels that life is running smoothly as he goes about his business. Psychic energy must also flow in reverse, from the conscious to the unconscious, as when a man relaxes from an active to a pensive or dreamy state. But if this backward flow lasts too long, the libido is being attracted to something in the unconscious that is stirring toward consciousness. If this is not made conscious, it will attract around it similar material which then forms a knot or complex...
From its inception, the Soviet Union has always stressed its industry. It knew that only by increasing its industrial might could it compete with the non-communist powers of the world. Before 1917, Russia was industrially backward by comparison with western nations. But today, the Soviet Union stands as one of the leading heavy industry producers in the world. This change could not have been instituted without extreme pressure being put on all other branches of the economy. It was mainly through a series of five-year plans, begun with a wave of enthusiasm in 1928, that the Russians were...
...Gardner must have been unimpressed, however, for they had, already grabbed their coats and were escorting the author out the door. A Dartmouth student standing nearby had taken out a pen to get the visitor's autography. But before he could say anything, Schulberg and his companions, without a backward glance, had disappeared among the ice statues of Fraternity...