Word: outwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he turned his attention upward and outward-away from earth and toward the vast reaches of space-Carpenter discovered that the interiors of future spaceships will have to be redesigned if passengers are to get a clear look at the starry sky. Since he had to keep watching his instruments, Carpenter could not turn off Aurora 7's panel lights, so his eyes never became adapted to darkness; he saw no more stars than are visible from earth. He did not see the Gegenschein, a comet-like trail of particles that is believed to follow the earth...
...judgment, the situation is getting worse instead of better." Outward. Dodd, who has heard his fill of TV talk, could not suppress a gnawing complaint: "You all seem to use the same terminology-to think alike-and to jam this stuff down people's throats." Men of good will who object to all this sex and violence, he added, are promptly sacked by all three networks. This time, it was ABC-TV's boss Thomas W. Moore who spoke the industry's bland philosophy. "They come and they go," he said, "through revolving doors...
...headquarters in Tunis, Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda of the Algerian F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) declared: "It is now possible to say that the Algerian revolution has triumphed and has attained the aims for which it fought." Despite these words, there was little sense of triumph beneath the outward forms of jubilation. The big fact about the Algerian cease-fire is moderation-a moderation resulting from exhaustion...
...side with solar cells to make electric power out of sunlight. While OSO was getting its final push from the launching rocket's third stage, both drum and sail were spinning rapidly. After it was fully in orbit, three arms carrying spherical tanks of high-pressure nitrogen swung outward, and small nitrogen jets reduced the spin to a steady 30 r.p.m...
...development of the scribbles into art's higher language is governed by "muscle play," Mrs. Kellogg says; the child discovers the circle when his arm tires of outward movement and he makes the corresponding line back toward himself. Then, by combining one form and another, the infant artist makes further discoveries about order and balance, all of them intuitive, and all drawn from imagination rather than observation...