Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paused to give the tea dregs a final stir. It was an amber slush now, and not worth drinking. "Well, that's life," he said finally. Vag nodded as he turned toward the Kitchen window with his tray...
...Triumph. In choosing an orbit for the sputnik, the Russians were daring. The easiest way to put a satellite on an orbit is to launch it toward the east from the equator. This takes maximum advantage of the earth's easterly rotation, and gives the satellite about 1,000 m.p.h. of free speed. The U.S. satellite, launched due east from Florida, would have got about 914 m.p.h. of free speed. The sputnik's orbit, 65° away from the equator, takes it -in Red triumph-over nearly all of the inhabited earth. (The U.S. satellite would have stayed...
...reason for the U.S. defeat in the race toward space is fairly obvious: instead of having the use of big military rockets, U.S. Project Vanguard was forced to depend on the Navy's Viking research rocket, whose thrust is only 27,000 lbs. Even if working perfectly, a Viking is barely strong enough to place a 21½-lb. satellite on its orbit. There is no margin for less-than-perfect performance. The Russians, according to General Blagonravov, used their most powerful rocket to launch the sputnik. Their launching vehicle must have taken off with at least...
...Freud a major contribution to psychiatry by bringing the neuroses out of the limbo of "imaginary" complaints and into treatment, and by laying the foundation for the recent development of psychosomatic medicine. Also to Freud's credit he lays much of the greater tolerance now shown by laymen toward severe mental illness and more humane ways of treating it. In psychology itself, Jones holds, Freud's investigative method compares in importance with the discovery of the microscope-"in both cases a hitherto invisible world was revealed...
...Bird. In Ventura, Calif., Audrey Martin got a divorce on the ground of mental cruelty after she told the judge that toward the end of their 25th year of marriage her husband Albert rarely spoke to her, proved by the fact that their parakeet's favorite saying was now: "Did you hear me, Albert...