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...roll down the runway, a vast, bright flame bursts from its tail. This is the afterburner: extra fuel dumped into the tail pipe to give extra power. The flame looks as big as the airplane, and it roars like continuous thunder. It shoots the plane forward and then upward as if a gigantic elevator were pulling it into the sky. As the plane rises almost vertically, the great flame shrinks to a small, bright point like a moving star. Then it blinks out suddenly; the fighter is at its search altitude, and the stealthy hunt has begun...
...want or to become an officer you don't have to be a college graduate, belong to 'society' or exert political influence." To the uninitiated reader, both manuals picture armed services in which every man is continually taking tests by which he rises rapidly upward to the proper level in the job for which he is most suited. The theory is beautiful...
...loosened a piece of slate on the floor under the bunk in his cell. Then he chipped patiently through ten inches of concrete, burrowed diagonally downward for ten feet and leveled off under the massive stone wall. He kept digging, tunneled on under a dry moat, then turned upward again. He had 26 feet to go to reach the surface...
...pound sterling would be revalued upward...
...Upward and Onward...