Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passenger's head was a tiny helmet with a microphone attached to record vocal sounds, and fitted into the little compartment were assorted instruments to measure heartbeat rate, blood pressure, body temperature, breathing rate. During the first few minutes of flight, while the missile was accelerating under the thrust of its engines, telemetering devices reported slowed-down and irregular breathing, slightly speeded-up heartbeat. Then, during about eight minutes of weightlessness while the missile was in ballistic flight, breathing and heartbeat went back to normal, indicating that, for eight minutes at least, weightlessness causes no severe immediate physiological changes...
...Section of Special Operations Executive, which was responsible for dropping agents and weapons to the French resistance. In Death Be Not Proud* Author Elizabeth Nicholas considers the fate of seven brave young women agents of the S.O.E. Four of them-Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh, Sonya Olschanesky, Andree Borrel-were thrust into the Nazi crematorium at Natzweiler and burned alive. The other three also died in a concentration camp, if not quite as horribly...
...dreary reaches of the Western flats. The boss of the approaching wagon train is understandably puzzled. He rides up to investigate. Just as he is about to tug at the wagon's flap, he hears a strange whirring. He pulls back just in time to escape the downward thrust of a thin-bladed sword. A samisen twangs weirdly on the sound track and a mustachioed Japanese samurai, complete with formal helmet and robe, emerges into the prairie glare...
...accusations, however, are somewhat tempered: "The thrust toward World War III is not a plot on the part of the elite, either that of the U.S.A. or of the U.S.S.R." But "Military necessity . . . has become a cover term by which those who proclaim and who decide in the name of the nation hide their incompetence and their irresponsibility. The only realistic military view is the view that war, and not Russia is the enemy...
Mills' specific suggestions to alleviate the thrust towards World War III, while eminently worthwhile, are less dramatic than his original thesis. He thinks that the United States should withdraw from all overseas bases, cease production and testing of nuclear weapons, encourage European disarmament, relax restrictions on scientific work, prohibit arms shipments to the Middle East, establish greater cultural exchange with Russia, provide a trained civil service, and reestablish civilian control over the military. However, the more important of Mills' recommendations are made less meaningful by his inclusion of seemingly trivial suggestions such as the foundation of a fleet of airlines...