Word: maneuverability
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So the crew must make a "power maneuver." They observe the stars to fix their position; then, by spinning three little flywheels, they point their rockets in the right direction and turn on the power for 15 seconds. If all goes well, the ship will move into a circular orbit...
Then the crewmen make another power maneuver. They turn the ship so that its rocket motors are pointing forward. A brief blast from them reduces the ship's speed by 1,070 m.p.h. and puts it into an elliptical course which swings down toward the atmosphere. In its outer...
Escorted by three court cars, two motorcyclists and his stepmother (the Princess de Rethy), King Baudouin of Belgium and his party roared into Hertogenwald forest on what the palace called an "incognito" hunting trip. A squadron of beaters managed to maneuver one wild boar within six yards of the nearsighted...
In Paris, while the press fumed, Defense Minister René Pleven assured the Assembly that, although the fall of Nghialo was "painful for our prestige and losses we have suffered," neither the "means to fight" the six-year-long war nor the "ability to maneuver" had been lost. But a...
Despising them as misfits on life's remainder counter, Hardcaster nonetheless loads them up with atrocity yarns and heroic bilge till they glow with vicarious martyrdom. In but not of the circle of worshippers is a rather decent couple, Victor and Margot Stamp, who keep turning up like good...