Word: downwardly
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...control of the puck as she struggles to escape. Slowly but surely, she winds her left arm back around. With nothing to rely upon but strength and willpower to score, she breaks free from the defender’s hold. Her posture returns to its usual state—downward and slightly hunched, her eyes peering from beneath her tilted helmet, a wolf back in the hunt...
Summers, facing criticism for the downward trend in tenure offers to female scholars under his watch, established two University-wide task forces earlier this month to promote the advancement of women at Harvard...
...extended version of the epic, 10-minute-long Castaways and Cutouts finale, “California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade.” During the transcendent bridge that transitions between the song’s two parts, Colin sat himself down on the stage and turned his eyes downward to his guitar, strumming one single riff over and over, eventually shifting it around until he came to a new variation, then shifting it even more and incorporating the hook from R.E.M.’s classic “Seven Chinese Brothers.” Then he swirled the section...
...whole point of yoga may be to check your ego at the door, but that doesn't mean you can't assume the Downward Dog with style. As yoga has grown in popularity worldwide over the past several years?in the U.S. alone, 15 million practiced it in 2003, according to a Harris Interactive poll published by Yoga Journal?so too has the availability of the requisite mats, blocks and stretchy clothing. Americans spend an estimated $20 billion a year on yoga products?everything from $400 Marc Jacobs-designed mat bags to Juicy Couture yoga pants. Celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow...
...percentage of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) tenure offers going to female scholars has fallen since Summers took office as Harvard’s president—from 36 percent in 2000-2001 to 13 percent last year. Summers had pledged to reverse the downward trend in female tenure offers even before he drew fire for his suggestion last month that “innate differences” between the sexes could help to explain the lack of female scientists at elite institutions...