Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once in the lower atmosphere, the space plane will slow down by circling, and head for some landing field with a very long runway. It will touch at 250 m.p.h., and may use a drag parachute to check its speed on the ground. When the pilot steps out and walks away, he will have passed the longest 20 minutes in the history of manned flight...
Organized amateur astronomers will be called on to track the satellite with binoculars or modest telescopes during its first revolutions, which will not be exactly predictable. When it settles down in its orbit, the professionals will take over. Eventually, the satellite will be slowed by air drag, will swing lower and lower, meeting more air and more drag. At last will come the wild moment when it plunges back into the atmosphere and turns into a streak of fire. As this stage approaches, the amateur satellite-watchers will be needed again. The orbit will be changing too fast...
...third time in eight years, Cambridge's mayoralty election has become a knock-down, drag-out fight between warring factions in the City Council. The issue is not likely to be resolved at this afternoon's meeting, four councillors agreed last night...
...glider and an auto engine and a windmill. Airplanes are still powered gliders." Working with gliders, delta wings and rocket planes, he has long dreamed of an aircraft that would fly without supporting wings. "Wings are for the birds," he says. "They heat up, and they increase drag. In supersonic flight they create sound and shock waves. Energy is lost. For economy, you have to have an internal flow process. You can reflect and extinguish these shock waves on the opposite walls of the channel that you put them through...
...knew whom to blame. The conductor, she stormed, had smuggled Jesuits into the orchestra to sabotage her dance. So it went all round the world-lawsuits, horsewhippings, fake suicides, fainting spells, screamings, lovers, comas, seances, and always gentlemen who would take the horses out of her carriage to drag her in triumph to her lodgings. Yet she had the pathos of sincerity that lacked only the understanding of itself. In a sense, her stage appearance was a franker, more straightforward sensationalism than that practiced-among gossip columns, fan magazines and semi-public scandals-by Lola's Hollywood successors...