Word: nose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same individual missile could not have made both records. The X17, officially designated as a "reentry test vehicle," was designed and built to test heat-resistant materials for the nose cones of long-range ballistic missiles that will strike down from space at 16,000 m.p.h. Such speed is not necessary for the test vehicle itself. If it flies at about 9,000 m.p.h. in the thick air of low altitude, its nose will be subjected to as much heating and erosion as if it had plunged at 16,000 m.p.h. into the thin outer fringe of the atmosphere...
...Going Down. The X-17 is a three-stage missile powered by solid-propellant rocket motors built by Thiokol Chemical Corp. While the large, first-stage motor is burning, it climbs upward like any other missile. After coasting without power to an undisclosed but probably moderate altitude, it turns nose downward and starts to fall back to earth. Then the second-and third-stage rockets fire. Aided instead of opposed by gravity, they drive it to enormous speed...
...some circles in Scranton, Pa., talk of sugar in the gas tank or the stench of a stink bomb is likely to evoke gales of laughter. It also evoked interest on the part of Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets investigating committee, which followed its nose to the aroma and found-rotten eggs in Scranton's building-trades and teamsters unions. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Ungentle...
...blustery February morning in 1953, a B-29 took off from Massachusetts' Bedford airport and pointed its nose along the great-circle route to Los Angeles. There were eight people aboard the big bomber, but after take-off no one worked the controls. For two hours, a pilot sat watching the instruments. Then he got bored and let the plane fly itself. It did, making minor corrections for each gust of air. It rose to 21,000 ft. to traverse the Rockies, stayed on course through a 100-m.p.h. wind shift over Nevada. Finally, 13 hours...
...accused of taking his old man apart with a switchblade, and follows the twelve men into the jury room-the main institutional horror that looks (and probably smells) as if it used to be a mop closet. For the next hour and a half the moviegoer never gets his nose out of that room, or out of the mess that justice...