Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a confident look into the wild blue yonder: "They will certainly be ready by 1962." That depended, however, on the war-thinned younger generation, about whom a former Luftwaffe ace complains: "When we were young, we were speed-crazy. Now the boys tell me, 'Jets are too fast. We don't want one foot in the grave.' " Old Luftwaffe pilots, now in their late 30s or early 40s, prove slower to train than their opposite U.S. numbers, report U.S. instructors at Fürstenfeldbruck. Banned from the air for ten years, baffled...
Battling Air. When rockets are fired from the earth's surface, they cannot start fast. If they move too fast too soon, the dense, low-altitude air battles back ferociously, wasting the rocket's fuel and heating the structure to the disaster point. But slow starting has disadvantages too. Rocket motors are less efficient at slow speed, and a slow-starting vehicle wastes energy because it has to carry the fuel it needs for later acceleration to high altitude against the earth's gravitation...
...Johnny Mathis; Columbia). One of the freshest young practitioners of the crewcut, scrubbed-voice style made popular by Pat Boone, Mathis quavers out his fast-selling ballad and all but soft-sells himself out of the lady's vision: "We may never meet again, but then...
...Hold fast to the faith, once and for all delivered to the saints," Young told his congregation in his farewell speech. "Don't let the world make you conform to its pattern...
...troubles began in the do-it-now days of the Korean emergency, when top Air Force brass farmed out part of a 2,700-plane order for Thunderstreaks because Republic Aviation Corp. was unable to build the jets fast enough. The Air Force gave the contract to G.M.'s Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly division at Kansas City, Kans., agreed to pay the automaker all costs plus a 5.9% profit on an initial order of 71 planes, with the understanding that this cost experience would be used in figuring later profits. As it turned out, said Auditor Powers, in subsequent...