Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill was up at once. Clutching the dispatch box with both hands, he thrust out his chin and growled ominously, "With great respect, may I plead humbly with the right honorable and learned gentleman to allow his duties to the House on an occasion of so much interest as this to take precedence over almost any engagement in the country...
...invisible hooks reach out; their suction will clasp a man who comes too close and break his body. The blast roaring out the tail will knock a man down at 150 ft. The reaction of the speeding jet of gas pushes against the test stand with a two-ton thrust. If the engine were pointing upward and left unshackled, it would take off like a rocket, each pound of its weight overbalanced by more than two pounds of thrust...
...utilize the new engine's capabilities. Even later airframe designs have not kept up with the fast-growing muscles of the engine. Britain's first turbojet flew successfully in 1941. Designed by Britain's Air Commodore Frank Whittle,* it developed only 850 Ibs. of propulsive thrust. Now engines with 5,000 Ibs. of thrust are available, and soon there will be bruisers with 8,000-10.000 Ibs. No one thinks that even these will be the last word...
...Only when the engine is set up with a pipe to catch its gases is it safe to watch the fires kindle. *The power of jet engines is measured in pounds of thrust. The propulsive horsepower developed varies with the speed. At 375 m.p.h., one pound of thrust equals one "thrust horsepower." * Spruce, tweedy Whittle, 41, comes nearest to being the inventor of the turbojet. Recently the British Labor government, with a grand Old Regime gesture, handed him a tax-free thank you of ?100,000. *Pronounced mack. Named after Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach...
...They led Ruth Brown Snyder from her steel cage tonight. Then the powerful guards thrust her irrevocably into the obscene, sprawling oak arms of the ugly electric chair . . . The body that once throbbed with the joy of her sordid bacchanals turned brick red as the current struck . . . That was only 30 minutes ago. The memory of the crazed woman in her last agony as she struggled against the unholy embrace of the chair is yet too harrowing . . . She wore blue bloomers . . ." In such flamboyant journalese, flamboyant Hearstling Gene Fowler described the executions of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray...