Word: upright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being denitrogenized, the balloon was lying flat and limp on South St. Paul's Fleming Field. An Air Force crew turned helium into it, and bit by bit a bubble of plastic reared upward. At last the balloon, as tall as a 25-story building, was standing upright in the still early-morning air. At 6:27 a.m., it took off. Kittinger, his heartbeat still steady, radioed "Goodbye, cruel world...
...also how pathetic. The emotions that shape the internal world in which every man lives are perhaps most tellingly portrayed in art in terms of the human body. By one's very close to it, one cannot think otherwise. "Our continuous effort to keep ourselves balanced upright on our legs affects every judgment on design. The disposition of areas in the torso is related to our most vivid experiences, so that abstract shapes, the square and the circle, seem to us male and female, and that the old endeavor of magical mathematics to square the circle is like the symbol...
...army approached with Mustafa Jela, the seamed and middle-aged owner of the cows. The first witness (from the Jordan side of the fence) was a tracker who followed the path of the cows to the border. The second was a character witness for Jela. "He is an upright man who does not know how to lie," he said. "If he says the cows are his, they are his." Then came Mustafa himself. Swearing his oath on a Koran (printed in Israel), he told the court: "I know those cows as I know my children." Could he describe them, asked...
...play something extra. But if Hotel Paradiso lacks the sustained period-farce verve of last season's The Matchmaker, it may partly be because Lahr is not Ruth Gordon's equal as a center tent-pole, either in the sturdiness with which she held whole situations upright, or in the barbaric magnificence with which she could topple them over...
...moving through a 90° arc, their bodies laid back, almost horizontal, at the end of each stroke. Oxford, though, rowed in an un-British style-their sweeps were shorter, the oarsmen pulled in shorter arcs, and at the end of each stroke the eight crewmen were still almost upright on their seats; they were depending on legs and arms for their drive...