Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space medics in color, found that there was more to picture than had been imagined. Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant went on a flying tour of U.S. Air Force space medicine centers, and for his preview of what man faces when he reaches for the stars, see MEDICINE, Outward Bound...
...doing anything he asks his men to do, Massu is what the French call, in a word borrowed from the Arabs, baronder, a hardheaded fighter. His bristling mustache, gigantic nose and fiery eyes are set in a face that looks like a well-worn chopping block. For all his outward appearance of strength. Massu has frequently betrayed an inner uncertainty. Like his hero De Gaulle, he has often wondered whether to suffer under authority that he believes is wrong or to strike out alone. At Suez, irritated at the slowness of the British landings, Massu tormented himself with the idea...
...outward appearances, Armed Services Chairman Carl Vinson was still playing to the hilt his role as stalwart defender of the separate services against President Eisenhower's move toward centralizing Pentagon power. But in the week's most remarkable Capitol Hill development, what Twining was actually working on-with Vinson's full approval -was a compromise preserving the essentials of the Eisenhower plan...
Plasma from the Sun. The radiation belt, Van Allen conjectured, is probably a "plasma" made of disassociated hydrogen atoms (protons and electrons) that came originally from the sun and are held high above the earth by the earth's magnetic field. The belt may extend outward for two earth radii (8,000) miles before it disappears. Van Allen suspects that the supply of plasma fluctuates a good deal; the particles tend to leak down to the earth's atmosphere and are replenished from time to time by fresh particles shot into space by disturbances...
Increasingly few among us can do exactly as we please and that is why movies are better than ever. Yet, flesh and blood, wandering loose through Harvard Square these days, is an oddly-shaped young man who, one gathers, finds few outward obstacles to the fulfillment of his whims and truly knows the freedom we see only on the silver screen...