Word: uprightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the man finished, he raised both hands toward Judas and said, "Jude, go to your father now; he'll need you for the planting. The others won't harm you; I'll warn them off." The man's upright hands were pierced with deep wounds, just below the palms...
...back of a dimmed astronomy room, then, when the professor's voice has turned into a droning Barry White blah blah blah, the secret to keeping your eyelids in their upright positions is filling up all of your senses with your own created stimuli. If you squeeze, massage and shock your body into awareness, your memories of college may be of lecture--rather than a cloudy recollection of your vacations to dreamland...
WALK BY Attention, parents: baby walkers--those wheeled contraptions used to prop up infants--may hinder your child's development. Data on 109 babies suggest that tots who scoot around in them are slower to sit upright, crawl and walk--and score lower on mental tests. Why? The walkers' large trays prevent infants from seeing their legs move, depriving them of feedback about how their bodies operate. They also keep them from grabbing--and learning about--things around them. That's the theory, anyway...
...kick knuckled through inside the left upright, and the two officials standing under the posts looked at each other and hesitated before calling the kick good...
...COMMENT] Shows that our ancestors walked upright at least 500,000 years earlier than previously known...