Word: steering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soles ($800), the revolution was well worth the price as a demonstration of Bustamante's strength. A month ago Bustamante had dismissed from his cabinet the reactionary army leaders who wanted to outlaw the leftist Aprista party. Fortnight ago he announced that he meant to steer Peru on a straight-down-the-middle course. In the quick showdown forced by Llosa, the army stood behind the President. Within a few hours of the first call to revolt, all garrison commanders pledged loyalty to Bustamante. Early rumors that General Manuel Odria and other former cabinet members might join the uprising...
Most airmen steer clear of thunderclouds. Inside, there's apt to be a rough-house laced with lightning and rattling with hailstones. But sometimes thunderstorms cannot be dodged. So the Air Force, cooperating with the Navy, the Weather Bureau and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, undertook to find the best way to deal with them. If a plane flies too slowly through the vertical gusts, it may lose flying speed and stall. If it flies too fast, the gusts may tear its wings off. This week the Air Force published a chart showing how fast various planes should...
What lights does Congress steer by? By & large, the Senate's foreign-policy course had been set by the stars of mature statesmanship. Despite a few erratic zigzags, the House had followed the Senate's lead. Then last week a majority of House members suddenly abandoned the charts and seemed to head for the rocks...
...killing her. The house was pitch-dark. O'Dwyer got a kerosene lamp, pushed it into the room, saw that his quarry had gotten into bed. He dived, yanked back the blankets, grabbed the man's gun hand. It was like "holding the leg of a steer." The man wrestled desperately to bring his weapon to bear. O'Dwyer warned him, then pulled his own pistol, fired once, into the man's arm. The bullet plowed on and killed him. _ The D.A. His hard but priceless education on the waterfront was augmented by another: he went...
...therefore herded away from the equator by the earth's magnetic field. As Dr. Simpson's plane flew north, he could tell its latitude fairly accurately by his neutron-counting instruments. But he would not say whether variations in the "neutron field" could be used to steer guided missiles around the earth. "This question," he said, "is being investigated...