Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nervous Kibitzers. The Democratic strategy was successful in upsetting nearly all Republican alignments. Some Old Guardsmen, e.g., New York's Representative Dan Reed, the ranking G.O.P. member of the Ways and Means Committee, and Pennsylvania's Ed Martin, chilly in the past toward the Eisenhower Administration, now found themselves backing Ike in his refusal to push the panic button. Yet many devoted Eisenhower Republicans found themselves nervously eyeing the Administration's play of the hand. Among them: New Jersey's Clifford Case, New York's Jack Javits, and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper...
...circled the area, taking photographs, logging everything, the airmen watched pale-faced as tiny ambulances sped toward a South Carolina community with the incredibly appropriate name of Mars Bluff...
...plane climbed toward 15,000 feet, Captain Earl Koehler, 36, the plane commander, saw a light flash on his instrument panel. This was a warning and an urgent one: the electrical bomb-locking system was malfunctioning, and in the bomb bay lay an unarmed nuclear bomb...
This rough aiming is not good enough, either to hit the moon or to orbit around it. So toward the end of the journey a scanning device will pick up the moon's sunlit face, fix its position, and an artificial brain will figure out what to do next. It can light a small steering rocket to correct the course. If a landing on the moon is scheduled, a backward-acting retrorocket can be fired to reduce speed and impact. A different use of the two control rockets will make the vehicle orbit around the moon to report...
...strongest boosters began to worry about his form. Their favorite was only 28 lengths behind the leaders-for him that was hot pursuit. Maybe he was burning himself out early. But Silky had plenty in reserve. When the field carried wide on the stretch turn, he wove and darted toward the rail with the sure-footed skill of an All-American halfback. Silky shot under the wire a widening three lengths in front of his stablemate, Harcall. Said Harcall's jockey, Bill Boland: "He ran by me so fast, he darn near sucked me under...