Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vermont hills about Ripton, the red fires of autumn smoldered on the swamp maples and sumac, crept inward from branch tips, inched downward into the valley where the river brawls through the gorge. From a slab-wood cabin with its back set firmly against the valley's shoulder, cooking his own meals and dependent on no man, 76-year-old Poet Robert Frost last week faced the world. It is the vantage point he likes best...
...Downward Pull. An even more promising instrument is a special version of the ancient magnetic compass. Ordinary magnetic compasses are of little use in the far north. Their needles do not swing normally, but often try to point almost directly downward toward the magnetic pole a few hundred miles away. The "flux-gate" compass, which uses coils instead of needles, eliminates the downward pull and shows only the small horizontal pull toward the magnetic pole. The compass does not point north, of course. Since the magnetic pole is many miles south of the geographical North Pole, the compass often points...
...This time they got an explanation; the Air Force had done it on purpose. Before a distinguished audience of scientists and Air Force brass, two test pilots, Captain John C. Newman and Lieut. Harold Collins, climbed their F-86 jet fighters to 43,000 ft. and dived them vertically downward. Pushed by their jets and pulled by gravity, the fighters soon passed the speed of sound. Shock waves trailed in spreading "Vs" from the leading edges of their wings...
...still a live political issue. Politician Harry Truman had recognized the potential magic of a gadget that promised something for everybody. He was also cagily capitalizing on the farmers' new worry. In the past two years, farm income-despite high prices and high supports-had bounced downward about 20%. This was mostly a natural decline from artificial alltime price highs in wartime, but, citing the price drops in a direful voice, the President implied that it wouldn't happen again-provided the farmers voted for the Brannan Plan and, incidentally, the Democrats...
...healthy baby actually being suffocated would fight for life and yell to attract attention, says Dr. Bowden. "Why," he asks, "should a healthy baby die without much fuss just because he is face downward or his face is covered? But a baby dying of natural disease might well be expected to make a quiet exit...