Word: rear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solar system, the appearance of the sky began to change. As the ship approached them, the nearer stars began to shift their positions in familiar constellations, eventually disappearing from forward view as the spacecraft passed them. More distant stars remained in relatively fixed positions. In the view from the rear, the sun faded from sight as the craft flew beyond a distance of 30 light-years from the solar system, while 45 Eridani loomed ever larger ahead...
...stars at high velocity, their light appeared to be shifted toward the blue, or higher frequency end of the spectrum. Moving rapidly away from other stars caused their light to appear more red. Stars viewed through the front window of the spacecraft generally became more blue, those through the rear window more red, as the spacecraft velocity increased...
...middle of next week. Because terrorist units operating from Aden's seething Crater district have been lobbing mortar shells on the port and the city's Khormaksar airbase as a farewell gesture, the British have had to post two regiments in the district simply to protect their rear...
...assassination. As he saw it, a split second after President Kennedy's head lurched forward under the impact of a bullet, it lurched back again. Thompson speculates that another bullet must have struck him from the front. Much of the debris from the wound, moreover, landed to the rear of the car, again an indication to Thompson of an oncoming bullet. After talking to various eyewitnesses, Thompson decided that one assassin had been posted behind the fence on the grassy knoll, a second on top of the Dallas County Records Building. The other two shots came from the sixth...
Cole's reputation soared still higher when he not only designed the revolutionary rear-engine Corvair, but outflanked several layers of unwilling management to sell then Chairman Harlow Curtice on the lively little car. The Corvair has since had its troubles, but Cole's baby is often credited with creating the current taste for sporty cars...