Word: downwardly
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...Skyhawk through a stunt called the opposing blivot, in which two planes approach head on, then, as they come within 200 ft. of each other, go into steep climbs. At the peak of the stunt, the pilots pull out of a 6,000-ft.-high loop, point their planes downward and crisscross paths at a 45° angle. It was during that precisely timed climax that Gershon's plane and another A-4 collided. The pilot of the other plane ejected and parachuted to safety, but Gershon's plane went into a dive that ended in a fiery crash...
...Then last June she heard about an experimental treatment being tested at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. It involved aiming a powerful magnet at a spot on the brain to reset the wayward neural circuits that keep Martha, and millions like her, stuck in the downward spiral of depression...
...single, kicking off a dizzying succession of critical plaudits. Her sound defied easy description from the start, echoing out like a siren’s song on that first single: often incomprehensible but always irresistible, all staticky bounce and half-nonsensical singalongs, with dial-tones spiraling downward over nimble bass stabs. And “Galang” sounds like almost nothing else on the final album...
...question hangs in the air like the stench of vomit in the New Quincy elevator. My fellow section mates and I glance downward, furiously writing notes. We don’t want to get put on the spot. The seconds tick by. The TF waits...
Among surveyed institutions, the percentage of alumni who contribute has decreased each year since 2001. RAND’s survey does not explain the downward trend, but Kaplan outlined several possible explanations in a press release outlining the results of the study...