Word: erects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door and a machine-gunner crouched over his weapon at the head of the stairs, covering the hallway. I was shown into a small, book-lined room. In a moment, in strode a trim, greying man wearing dark trousers and a white sport shirt. He walked with erect carriage and springy step. We shook hands, and he laid a sheaf of papers and a Mauser pistol on the table...
...times the normal width, it all but overpowers the eye with spectacular movie murals of slave markets, imperial cities, grandiose palaces and panoramic landscapes that are neither distorted nor require the use of polarized glasses. In CinemaScope closeups, the actors are so big that an average adult could stand erect in Victor Mature's ear, and its four-directional sound track often rises to a crescendo loud enough to make moviegoers feel as though they were locked in a bell tower during the Angelus. Obviously, Hollywood has finally found something louder, more colorful and breathtakingly bigger than anything likely...
Violinist de Vito, a handsome, erect woman with grey hair and dark eyes, was opening-night soloist. On the concert stage, she showed her Latin dash at once, tucking her violin under her chin with a flourish, then working both hands in the air to limber them before attacking the music. Her tone had none of the acid brilliance of a Heifetz, but in roundness and warmth resembled Kreisler's. She scorned fireworks or virtuosity. "She is an artist," said one De Vito fan, "not a virtuoso." In the Vivaldi concerto last week her violin was warm and passionate...
...face, and he was gaunt beneath his suntan. To those who knew him three years before, he looked ten years older. But even in his incongruous costume-an ill-fitting suit, blue cap, thick-soled sneakers, an orange shirt, a red tie-he was still cheerful and erect, still very much a soldier. He was Major General William F. Dean, 54, commander of the first U.S. forces in the Korean war (elements of the 24th Infantry Division), hero of Taejon, highest ranking U.N. officer taken prisoner by the Communists, first Medal of Honor winner of the Korean...
...could use them to move his pelvis. He compares the process to the case of a man walking on stilts, who uses the upper part of the body instead of the leg and lower trunk muscles to get around. With the newly developed muscles, the paraplegic can hold himself erect and move his upper trunk, arms and shoulders. Guttmann found that the best way to keep the muscles strong was to launch a sports program. He invented the Stoke Mandeville swimming stroke: the patient sits upright in the water, paralyzed feet floating in front of him, and rows himself backward...