Word: downwards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...computer range, Machines Bull distributed RCA models with scant profit. With 80% of its output rented instead of sold, the company gradually discovered that it was not receiving income enough to amortize its nine plants. Machines Bull stepped up its borrowing, cut back on research, and chopped prices. The downward spiral had begun...
...from school to the familiar, petty bitchinesses of his parents. Bloch infuses the trivial "stuff of life" that makes up his story with an unusual intensity. Yet he does not languish turgidly over details, a favorite indulgence of Porter and Mary Seager, forcing the reader to rush his eyes downward, hungry for a little less talk and more action...
...deep into key historical events and by suggestion and inference tell the contextual history. Author of the new series is John Langdon-Davies, a sometime history scholar, novelist and war correspondent, who reckons that he knows something about engaging young minds. At 67, he has seven children, ranging downward in age from 44 to three...
...shallow shaft before its nuclear reactor is allowed to go critical. Quickly the temperature will rise to about 1,100° C. (2,012° F.), which is hot enough to melt most rock. Because of the insulation around the midsection, most of the heat will flow downward; soon the lower point will be surrounded by a puddle of lava. The needle reactor will gradually drop into this plastic stuff, and the lava will close over it and solidify...
...will start in your scalp. When you feel this, one of your fingers will feel like lifting. That will be your 'Yes' finger. Then your eyes will feel relaxed, your mouth and lips will feel soft, and your 'Yes' finger will lift." The speaker works downward in a sort of hyp tease, through jaw, neck and shoulders, arms, chest, and abdomen, thighs, legs and feet. "When you feel relaxation in your toes, your 'No' finger will feel like lifting. Whichever finger it is, let it lift...