Word: skywards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smell of horses, but wrap him carefully so he won't get stung." A local housewife urged the airline to give the bees a good whiff of bruised lemontree leaves. C.A.A.'s chief pilot decided on more drastic action. Taking his place at the controls, he flew skyward to 17,000 ft., bumped, banked and looped-but when he got down again, the busy bees were still happily humming in the wing...
...missile, which reputedly can travel at 1,000 m.p.h. at heights up to 60,000 ft. The missiles are fueled with alcohol and liquid oxygen and presumably controlled by electronic computers on the ground. The filmed sequence, shown last week on NBC, starts (bottom left) as the missile heads skyward, powered by wraparound booster rockets, which begin to fall off (upper left) as the missile reaches top speed. The missile then cuts in its second power supply (top right) and races on to meet the target aircraft...
...union balked at that, federal mediators tried a new tack: they suggested that they and the fact-finding board, composed of two professional labor arbitrators, work with both sides to settle the dispute. After both sides accepted the mediators' peace-making proposal. Federal Mediator Joe Finnegan pointed skyward and sighed: "If this doesn't work, we will call on third-party assistance from upstairs...
What place have such symbols in modern psychology? Says Jung: they are facts. They appear day after day in the dreams and doodlings of patients. If, for instance, a patient dreams of a snake held skyward, a Freudian analyst will automatically call it a phallic symbol. Jung concedes that it may mean that. But it is also a fact that the serpent has a much broader significance. For instance, to the Ophite Gnostics (2nd century A.D.) the serpent symbolized the redeeming principle of the world. It can stand, says Jung, for the recognition of the shadow side of life...
...station exists to track Soviet raiders, if ever they come, and to guide by voice radio the U.S. interceptors scrambling skyward to give battle. In the windowless operations building, manned in shifts around the clock, two of several installed radar sets ceaselessly sweep the sky. Every passing plane is plotted, immediately reported to direction center "Carrot," which has to answer the insistent question: Is it the enemy...