Word: sideward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helped the change from ellipse to circle by increasing the perigee from 100 to 140 miles above the earth; following the laws of orbital mechanics, though, it also reduced Gemini 6's closing speed on Gemini 7, now only 500 miles ahead. Later, he moved his flight path sideward and edged into the same orbital plane as Gemini 7 by yawing his spacecraft 90°, then firing a brief but finely timed thrust toward the south at right angles to his direction of motion...
...which controls Gemini's 85-Ib. and 100-lb. thrusters, and is-in NASA parlance-"direction oriented." When he wanted to move forward, he merely moved the stick forward; when he wanted to go into reverse, he pulled the stick back; he moved it right or left for sideward motion. In his right hand, he clasped a notched pistol grip that controlled smaller thrusters used to pitch, yaw or roll the Gemini around one of its own axes-maneuvers that could fix its attitude in space. By working both controls simultaneously, Schirra was able to make his spacecraft respond...
High School, where students say there were three pregnancies last year, embarrasses a couple leaving a party to be alone by crying "Baaa" and jerking their elbows in a sideward motion, indicating that the couple intends to do more than make sheep's eyes. Interracial necking is acceptable, reports Junior Clyde Leland, 15, "but usually they're the phonies trying so hard to be liberal." Denver's suburban Cherry Creek High is known for academic excellence and high-strung students, but it also has "woodsies"-dancing on the sand of a dry creek bed while beer cans...
...Blue will depend on a fullback attack in which the bread-and-butter series centers around the belly play. In its most common form, this play starts as an off-tackle smash by the fullback. The quarterback places the ball in his stomach and "rides" him with a sideward step toward the line of scrimmage. The signal caller can either leave the ball in the fullback's arms or he can pull it out, and run, pass, or hand off to a trailing halfback...
...your cover illustration showing Khrushchev leading his gang: Khrush (and the others) aren't wearing their golf caps in the approved style for gangsters -namely: visor of cap drawn down over one eye, snap button undone from its catch, and bag top of cap pulled hard backward, sideward, and downward over one ear-all indicating that the wearer is as tough as tar and twice as nasty...