Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...repressive measures Menderes had imposed. He freed 200 students and nine newsmen, licensed 14 banned newspapers to start publishing again. Ahmet Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish journalism, published his first art:'c':e since his release from prison last month: "The Turkish armed forces are marching forward with giant steps on the road opened by Ataturk." General Gursel fetched seven professors from Istanbul to help draft a provisional constitution. One was Istanbul University President Siddik Sami Onar, who was badly beaten by Menderes' police when he protested their rough treatment of student demonstrators last month...
...tough answer to Nikita Khrushchev's threats to "atomize" all U.S. forward bases, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi decided to rush through the new U.S.-Japanese treaty of alliance which has long been stalled in the House of Representatives by opposition Socialists...
...Crown Prince Feisal, to take charge of the country, save its finances, and restore its prestige in the Arab world. Since then, the treasury has been built up, and the throne has not been embroiled in the intrigues of Arab politics. But last January, Feisal, moving his country gradually forward into the 20th century, cautiously allowed a little press freedom-and the king saw a way of regaining the initiative that he had so humiliatingly lost...
Something must have gone wrong. The way to bring a satellite, manned or unmanned, down to the atmosphere is to fire a forward-pointing retrorocket to reduce its speed. If this is done properly, the satellite will curve down into the denser air, where it will be slowed further by friction. If the retrorocket is fired in the wrong direction, it will speed the satellite up and put it on an orbit with a higher apogee. The U.S. Air Force Discoverer satellite program has suffered from just such aiming errors...
Author Fielding writes a torrential prose, and his imagist phrases, fabulous incident, antic characters and peripheral violence whip the story forward. He shares with the late Joyce Gary the belief that a novel's most important qualities are narrative and action. Too many writers, complains Fielding, fill their books "with things which rightly should be confined to their diaries, their lavatories or their psychiatrists." His greatest strength-dramatic invention-contributes to his greatest weakness: over-plotting...