Word: thrustings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sizzler. Into this delicate situation Charlie Wilson thrust his heavy thumb, outraging Senators of both parties by impugning the motives and dignity of the august U.S. Senate. Democrat after Democrat arose to denounce Wilson; several of them demanded his immediate resignation. Republicans for the most part sat in embarrassed silence...
Mach 2. By any standard the Crusader is a hot plane. It packs missiles and fast-firing 20-mm. cannons, has a 1,000 mi. combat range, a service ceiling of 55,000 ft. Its top speed with a Pratt & Whitney J57 engine (more than 15,000 Ibs. of thrust with afterburner) is close to Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight. What helps make such speed possible for a carrier plane is the Crusader's stubby, sharply swept wings: they are ingeniously hinged, can be tilted upwards to act as enormous flaps...
...also under fire for having failed to divulge any hint of the true nature of Stalin. But, fearful of losing their large following among French intellectuals, they still permitted (in a minor party publication) only mild criticism of Stalin "grown old." But perhaps the best example of the dilemma thrust on foreign Communists by Khrushchev's revelations was the bitter tears being shed by Manhattan's Daily Worker (see PRESS...
Last week six trucks rolled up to the old manor house, and policemen stepped out under the copper beeches and laburnums. Admitted to the great house, one of them thrust a document at Lady Garbett. It was an eviction notice ordering her to leave home and farm by 3 o'clock that afternoon...
...small delta wing with a fuselage about 30 ft. long. It now has conventional landing gear for test purposes, but is designed as a "tail sitter" (sitting on its tail on take-off). When rising or hovering in the vertical position, it probably depends for control on outboard thrust outlets taking power from the engine or supplied with gas by small rockets. Some of the gossips believe that the X-13 will never try to land on its tail -a stunt that is still not easy for the less critical, propeller-driven Pogo. Instead, they think, it will hover near...