Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught in the outward rush of air, Harris shot out through the door into the night with arms uplifted, still holding the blanket. While he fell-for about 50 leisurely, dreadful seconds-to his death, the airliner rumbled on, soon landed at New York's International Airport...
Shock Wave. When an atom bomb explodes above the ground (as it did at Nagasaki and Hiroshima), the air around it is heated tremendously. Its push to expand creates a shock wave that roars outward in all directions with enormous speed. At 1,000 ft. from "zero," the point directly beneath the bomb, the wind whooshes out at 800 m.p.h., faster than the speed of sound. Two miles away, it is still blowing at 70 m.p.h...
...though the play breathes the spirit of the story, it does not exert the same spell. Often it cannot: some of the finest moments are lost to the stage. On its own terms, The Innocents is a little too thin: often fascinating, always atmospheric, it has few real outward thrills, little real inner tension. Its best scenes involve the children, brilliantly played by Child Actors David Cole and Iris Mann. As the governess, Beatrice Straight offers competence faintly tinged with monotony...
...Trip, Open-Jaw means travel which is essentially of a round-trip nature but the outward point of departure and inward point of arrival and/or outward point of arrival and inward point of departure of which are not the same...
...first Protestants, Steere says, deliberately swept away many of the outward forms of Christianity. Emphasis on visible authority and external practices had brought the Roman Catholic Church, they thought, to Pharisaism and travesty; they hoped to avoid the same pitfall by stressing an inward spirituality. Instead of relying on liturgical formulas and the "outward priestly act of the sprinkling of holy water," they hoped to permeate each moment of everyday life with devotion to God. "One could meditate on Bible verses as one shoed a horse, or patched a pair of trousers, or planed a door." But over the centuries...