Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After hesitating briefly at the third floor, the ever-loaded lift then continued at its normal speed to the very bottom of the shaft and stuck there. The cables had remained firm, but the extra half ton of humanity apparently caused the breaking mechanism to falter...
...that has been tried experimentally but never used in an operational airplane. When the wings are fully extended, they have hardly any sweepback, and the airplane looks oddly oldfashioned. In this condition it will fly with old-fashioned slowness. Then, as speed increases, the wings are swept backward, reducing lift and drag, and permitting speed to increase still more...
...basic question, said Justice Hugo Black, is "whether we can say that Congress was wrong in thinking that to deny hundreds of people a right to stop and spend the night places a burden on interstate commerce that Congress has a right to lift...
...Electro-Optical Systems Inc. of Pasadena, Calif., for the past four years, the ion rocket is likely to prove to be the Mighty Mouse of the space age. On earth it develops no more thrust than several milli-pounds (engineers call it the "milli-mouse burp"), barely enough to lift a one-carat diamond an inch off a desk. But in frictionless, gravity-free space, such burps can propel the biggest payloads. And the ion rocket's assignment is just that: to take over the task of propelling huge space cargoes to the planets and back after the mighty...
...always, somebody tried to make political hay out of all the fun and games. Just before the balloons went up, North Korea and Indonesia angrily withdrew when the Olympic Committee refused to lift its ban on athletes who had competed in President Sukarno's blacklisted Games of the New Emerging Forces last year. But they were hardly missed among the 7,000 sturdy youngsters competing for 499 gold, silver and bronze medals in 20 sports...