Word: downwardly
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Each level at which the H-bomb raises a question seems to slope downward to the next level, descending from some of the broadest and oldest questions of ethics and theology to some of the most specific problems of practical politics and economics...
...tilt. "It's the same faces saying the same things," says Mariangela Potenza, 24, a university student from Basilicata. "There's nothing that transmits innovation or novelty to the voters, nothing that stimulates me as a young person." Voter turnout, though still well above U.S. standards, has been edging downward in every national election since...
...sanctimony. Dr. Hark is a classic media moralist in the tradition of Judge Judy and Dr. Laura--curt and no nonsense. (Could Dickens have come up with a better name for a TV scold than Dr. Hark?) After a few minutes of her lecturing--"They are on a downward spiral toward disaster!"--I was ready to eat a deep-fried Snickers dunked in whipped cream just to spite...
...center Brian Cusworth. “That’s not who we are. We plan on going out with two big wins and ending the season on a high note.” It will not be easy. Cornell (11-15, 6-6) started Harvard’s downward spiral with a last-second 79-77 win in Ithaca on Feb. 4. Columbia (11-14, 4-8) has been playing much better since the Crimson beat it 69-59 on Feb. 3, and is the only team to defeat league-leading Penn. Cornell is the lone Ivy team, besides...
...Live view is very useful for all sorts of out-of-the-ordinary shooting. When I was testing it using an Olympus macro lens, I could manually focus the camera without craning my neck out of whack. In a crowd of people, I adjusted the articulating LCD to point downward, then held the camera aloft to take overhead shots...