Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rises. The helicopter?by virtue of its ability to rise straight up, to hover motionless in midair, to fly sideways, backward and forward, to feel its way through fog or snow at five miles an hour if necessary, to stop quicker than an automobile, and to lower itself vertically into clearings hardly bigger than the circle described by its rotor blades?began proving itself a priceless beast of aerial burden in the early days of the Korean war. In the last 36 months it has altered the whole world's concepts of transport, and has made itself a unique, irreplaceable...
...make his helicopter go up or down he incorporated the idea of the variable-pitch propeller; by increasing the rotor blades' bite on the air (and simultaneously opening the throttle), he increased their lifting power. But to steer the machine forward, backward or sideways he made the blades subject, also, to something much more complicated, called cyclical pitch. This forced the bite of each individual blade to lessen as it swung toward the direction in which the control stick was moved?and then to gradually increase back to maximum pitch as it traveled through the next 180 degrees...
...Park's Fenwick (Catholic) High School, which last year sent about 17% of its graduating class to Notre Dame, Johnny began to round out in other ways. Fenwick Trainer Dan O'Brien recalls Johnny as a "sort of dual personality around here. He seemed like a backward type when he was in the dressing room, not saying much or paying much attention to what was going on. But when he was on the football field, he suddenly became aggressive-not offensively so, but intelligently...
...Lloyd Wright, "I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility." Today, at 84. Architect Wright would never be accused of humble hypocrisy. But he is also revered, at home and abroad, as the world's greatest living architect. Last week the U.S. could take a long backward look at the array of Wright's achievements, expressed both in words and deeds...
...There was good reason to believe they were influenced by Communists, some of whose literature had recently been seized by Saudi police. Then to Aramco's relief, the government stepped in, took over the negotiations. At first, the Arabian negotiators listened openmouthed as the labor leaders attacked the "backward" government, then, recovering, they clapped the agitators in jail...