Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...House of Beef, Ricky was writing his college entrance essay in support of keeping the House of Lords. Ricky's fanaticism started in the fourth grade when an English transfer student offered him a copy of Pride and Prejudice in the playground. Since then it has been a downward spiral into the bowels of English culture. Yet the freshman declined to study in England in lieu of the lesser Cambridge School, Harvard...
Other, smaller factors have put downward pressure on the crime rate and should continue to do so. Better technology means you can install more sensitive alarm systems in your home and carry less cash on the street. The wane of Jack Daniels (and the rise of Evian) has yielded fewer drunken rages. Finally, although the prison-building boom sparked protest from those who insist we should spend the money on rehabilitation, no one can argue with cold reality: jails and prisons today lock up nearly 2 million people, and you simply can't knock over a 7-Eleven...
...successfully destroy and humiliate all their adversaries. They are cocky, obnoxious, and beloved by all. To them, pinning someone is not as important as hurting them, and their victory dance is a spectacle that every man should behold: with a chesty snort, they raise their arms and thrust them downward, forming an X over their groin. Their battle cry--part insult, part exhibition of their enviable virility--is unmistakable: "SUCK IT!" I'd witnessed it a hundred times on TV, but seeing it in person has an unexpected effect on me--I develop an abrupt desire...
...time it got to me," says Malone, "the magazine was really on the downward spiral...