Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Just as Stalin's aggressiveness inspired the birth of NATO in 1949, Khrushchev's aggressiveness was defeating its own purposes in Western Europe in 1960. On both sides of the English Channel last week, a post-summit reappraisal of power realities was subtly nudging forward the prickly cause of European unity...
...stepped forward was Kornei Chukovsky, 78, in his time the friend of Anton Chekov and Maxim Gorky. After recalling his long friendship with Pasternak, Chukovsky gingerly approached the crucial question: Pasternak's quarrel with the Communist Party. It resulted, said Chukovsky, from Pasternak's sharing Leo Tolstoy's pacifism and his refusal to "condone the resistance to evil by violence." In this Pasternak erred, stated Chukovsky. Then, having made the necessary obeisance to the Kremlin, he went on strongly to praise his old friend as a "splendid fighter," a perfect model of how an artist "should defend...
...path to fascism." explained one demonstrator vaguely. Girls shouting "Yankee go home" were shocked at the very suggestion that they were anti-American. Americans watching the demonstrations were never molested, and one "angry" crowd politely waited while a flustered marine guard finally got the embassy gates locked before surging forward to hammer at the portals. The crowds were really shouting in support of the Communist-fueled theme that Japan, by permitting U.S. air bases and rocket stations on its soil, was "at tracting the lightning" of Russian retaliation in a world conflict...
...earth. All were ready. From Cape Canaveral, Fla. came the word: "RF system ready." At T minus 10 seconds, "Moose" Mathison gave Canaveral the go-ahead: "Ready to launch." Canaveral's countdown neared its end: ". . . eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one-main stage ignited." Mathison hunched forward,. almost as though he were riding with the huge missile. Cried he: "Go, baby...
...have a chance of going into orbit around the moon, a space vehicle must make its approach at just the right speed and angle. To chivy itself into this ideal situation, the S.T.L. moon orbiter will have two engines-one firing forward and the other backward. The backward-pointing engine will have four tubes, each with two explosive valves, permitting it to be started and stopped four times by signal. The forward-pointing machine will have two tubes, giving it two starts and stops. Ground-controlled alternate firings of the forward and rearward engines are calculated to keep the orbiters...