Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stewardess Nancy Taylor, checking her passenger lists in the rear of the plane, heard an engine cough, begin to sputter, then die: "It made a terrible rumbling sound." The plane nosed downward. The radio at Newark Tower crackled out a message: "Is everything all right?" The pilot replied: "I lost an engine. Am coming back...
...post-war downward trend in the College enrollment continues today with about 4,440 undergraduates expected to register in Memorial Hall this afternoon. This is a drop of almost a 100 from last fall's 4,498, and about 50 men less than this time last year...
...Guns v. Butter?" Senator Johnson has performed an important service in disclosing how badly production is lagging behind schedule. When Wilson says that production is nearly up to schedule, he means schedules that have been revised downward very sharply from the program he accepted with confidence when he took office a year ago. Commenting on the Johnson report, Defense Secretary Robert Lovett last week called it "a darned good report ... a good statement... of where we are now-not how we got there...
Last week, in his first London show in 15 years, Dali tried again with a crucifixion entitled Christ of St. John of the Cross. In his latest painting, Dali had cleared away most of the surrealist bric-a-brac, and contented himself with a spectacular downward view of Christ on the cross, suspended in dizzy midair above a placid seacoast...
Spiraling in the violent updrafts of the thunderhead, his ship was quickly smothered in grey, impenetrable fog. Rain lashed at the canopy. The outside air temperature dropped. Comte continued to circle, nose down, while his plane climbed faster and faster-like a man moving upstairs while strolling slowly downward on a racing escalator. At 11,000 ft. the rain turned to hail that tore noisily at the wings. The airspeed indicator froze, and the rate-of-climb indicator stuck at 5 ft. per second. The needle of the glider's sealed barograph reached its limit...