Word: recoiling
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Mabel Dodge's recoil from her strenuous experiences in the upper world and underworld of the Left drove her back to the circles of more conventional artists. She embarked on a tormented love affair with Artist Maurice Sterne, eventually married him. Despondent, impatient, she took to psychoanalysis, which she enjoyed as "a kind of tattletaling." Then she frequented Christian Scientists, mediums, mystics, quacks, Buddhists and other heathen healers, as her third husband drifted away. Reed died in Moscow, Haywood stayed in Leavenworth penitentiary, Lippmann edited The New Republic, and her friends of the dead Bohemian days went their painful...
...Scarlett. He had got a bad reputation for his common-sense bluntness about Southern conventions. He said the Yanks would win the War because they had all the factories and because the immigrants were pouring into the North. He was self-seeking and rude on principle in his recoil from the affected gallantry he saw all around him. When the War broke he became a blockade runner and made money with his unpatriotic speculations. But Scarlett married Melanie's brother for spite, was a widow two months later, moved to Atlanta to be with Melanie, who had married...
...fact, have passed one definite milestone: they have traveled at 700 m.p.h., faster than any other self-propelled mechanism. The moon idea grew out of the solid fact that, unlike airplanes, rockets do not need air either for support or propulsion since they are pushed along by self-generated recoil forces...
...Electrochemical Society of the present progress and problems of rocketry. He pointed out that the burned gas molecules shoot out of a rocket's combustion chamber at 3,000 to 4,000 ft. per sec. A rocket traveling at this speed would be 100% efficient, since all the recoil force of the molecules is turned into forward thrust...
...measurements of x-ray wave lengths convinced Compton that such rays, although a form of light, could act like bullets as well as waves. If on colliding with gas atoms they lost part of their energy as bullets, they should recoil as waves weaker in intensity and hence longer in wave length. In addition they should kick electrons out of the gas. With apparatus so sensitive that it measured one ten-millionth of the energy of a mosquito climbing an inch of screen, he showed that this was true. This "Compton effect" went far to explain photo-electricity...