Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study the upper atmosphere, can reach up more than 21 miles. Rockets fly much higher, but they are too expensive and uncertain to send up on daily errands. Last week a group of upper-air explorers from the University of Denver started using cheaper messengers: sound waves, which soar up 30 miles or more and curve back to earth with valuable information about the air they have passed through...
...H.D.C. began to get extravagant, and the cost of putting on plays began to soar. The Dramatic Club went deeper and deeper in debt...
...bastard offspring of the two. It is, in the long run, speech, written down in this way because I find it convenient, and those who speak it may also occasionally find it helpful." Mry Fry's glittering poetry is fun to listen to. Ignore the meaning, and watch it soar and spin about the page or stage, like a toy airplane would too tight that swirls crazily, bumps into a chair (laughter), backs up a bit, and takes off again...
...Fouga Cyclone. With its wide wingspread and light construction (1,182 Ibs.), it not only looked like a glider but could fly like one. Apparently to make up for the heavy fuel consumption of the jet motor, the Cyclone's makers said that the plane could soar in updrafts for miles with the motor shut off, land at only 45 m.p.h...