Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile intervals around the landless region north of the Azores. They will not be anchored (most of the Atlantic is far too deep), but will cruise in 100-mile-wide circles. Their primary duty: to observe weather conditions by all known methods, including "radio sonde" balloons followed upward by radar. They will also give weather reports and radio "fixes" to both ships and airplanes...
...Grieffs Restaurant on the main drag a mouselike little man turned his palms upward, pointed to the blisters and said: "That's what I get for having to bury my garbage in the backyard." A well-dressed young office worker tried to rub the dirt from her nylons with a paper napkin and snapped: "I wish they'd clean the streets...
...Garrett's pet ideas. She also uses it to adorn the books of the Creative Age Press, a profitable publishing firm she owns. On this month's Tomorrow cover the spiral-which to her signifies the universal urge of beanstalks, nebulae and people to strive onward & upward-was all but invisible. John Richmond, the editor who diminished it, is now gone; next month the spiral (called the "corkscrew" by some irreverent ex-staffers, the "bedspring" by others) will be back as bright as ever...
...sleek, twin-boomed Black Widow night fighter, pilot J. W. McGuyrt reached for a new lever in his cluttered cockpit. He looked back at his passenger, and pulled. A telescopic gun tube exploded a 37-mm. charge and sent First Sergeant Lawrence Lambert, still strapped to his seat, whooshing upward out of the plane, 20 feet above the onrushing tail fins. Three seconds later a second explosion in the air snapped Lambert's safety belt and ripped the seat away. A third blast automatically opened his chute. After that, it was just like any of Airman Lambert...
...price balloon had not torn loose from its moorings. But the cable was paying out at a steady clip. The Gallup poll found that 92% of U.S. citizens expected prices to continue upward for the next six months, a rare percentage of agreement on anything...