Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politics. Dolly Thackrey got the impression that he was no longer a Wallaceite but a "liberal democrat" who would support Truman's Fair Deal program. That was assurance enough for Dolly Thackrey; they made a deal by which Ted could finally own the paper if he made a go of running it right...
Last week, resting comfortably after three successive skin grafts, Mike heard some good news. If all goes well in the next few months, Dr. Young thinks he may be ready to go home before fall...
...also has its king. He is Captain Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, 26, a modest, blue-eyed test pilot with an infectious grin and an easy West Virginia drawl. What makes Chuck Yeager outstanding, even among the crack pilots at Muroc, is the fact that his name is certain to go down prominently in aviation history books. Chuck Yeager was the first man to break through the dreaded "sonic wall" and fly faster than sound...
...wrestle with their controls. Sometimes a wartime fighter pilot, diving too fast in combat, would feel his stick freeze fast. No matter how he tried, he could not pull out of the dive. Sometimes he did not live to tell the tale. Sometimes the demon let go just in time, and the shaken pilot got back to his base to describe his hair-raising experience. Aerodynamicists explained it as "shock waves...
Even flying much slower than sound, airplanes can run afoul of shock waves. The air crowding past them has to go faster to get around their curved surfaces. If, in its hurry, the air hits the speed of sound, shock waves form locally. Good design has steadily raised the speed at which an airplane can fly without trouble from local shock waves. But there is a limit: the speed of sound itself.* At this critical speed, an airplane's motion is sure to generate shock waves...