Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tested eight small rockets in the nose and two in each wing-a main objective of the flight. These form a control system that will be vital at higher altitudes, where conventional controls turn mushy in the thin atmosphere. They worked fine. Descending, he looked out of his tiny window at most of California, part of Oregon and Baja California in Mexico, noting that the horizon wore a white halo and the sky was "a nice, dark blue...
Logically enough, considering the environment, the phobias most often found in U.S. metropolitan areas have to do with high places, airplanes and dirt. Fear of heights is not a serious matter if it involves only skyscrapers: an occasional high-steel worker or window-washer has to change his job because of this. But many people, as they grow older, become neurotically cautious, get to the stage where they cannot even go near a window above the ground floor. In such severe cases, the anxiety usually extends far beyond this symptom and pervades the whole personality. Airplanes evoke a comparable phobia...
...control the process, Skinner insisted on a machine. On his prototype machine, the size of a portable record player, the student pulls a lever to make a frame appear in the window. He ponders, writes his answer, pulls the lever again. The answer moves under glass (to prevent his changing it) and the correct answer appears. As the Skinnerian student clicks along, he concentrates fully on each item, advancing only when he is ready to answer. If he gets spring fever he may stop work, but at least he misses nothing, as he would in class. If he wants...
...group of people into a panic. This was the TV coverage of the United Nations spectator demonstration by a group of Lumumba supporters. This is the Communistic psychology in action. This is how to convert a crowd of thousands into a raging mob of head-bashing, flag-burning, window-breaking "supporters" of a cause. This is our price of tolerance. When will we realize that those who are out to destroy us, or who support those who are out to destroy us, should not be tolerated...
Wakened at midnight by the smell of smoke, Mary Clark Rockefeller found the stairwell of the century-old Albany Executive Mansion engulfed in flames, pounded on the door of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's adjoining bedroom, and together they crawled through the second-floor window onto a porch roof. Just as Rocky got set to leap for a clump of bushes 15 feet below, the fire department arrived, shot up a rescue ladder. After ascertaining that his wife and three servants were safe ("A miracle," beamed New York's First Lady), the Governor ducked back into his bedroom...