Word: inwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...active day began with the "Macfadden Bed Exercise," in which each mate turned outward on the double bed and put the limbs through slashing, scissor movements, meanwhile straining the torsos inward. There followed calisthenics before the open window, dumbbell exercises, headstands and one-legged squatting exercises. The body was by then sufficiently limbered up for a "ten-mile jog trot." Mary was excused from some of the more rigorous exercises when she was pregnant, so she could sometimes lie abed watching her husband. Physically, he was a striking specimen. His perfectly muscled body was only 5 ft. 6 in. high...
...rigor of expression belonging to the most accomplished and the most experienced, an artist who has given up all the illusions of youth." The esthetes rolled their eyes. "He dominated us all," says Jean Cocteau, "by his wisdom, his calm, and the clairvoyance of his myopic eyes turned inward...
...hope of turning the flow inward and damming it into a reservoir to serve the public, Idaho legalized slot machines on a local-option basis in 1947. Heavy license fees were imposed. But the results were weird and astounding. Though the state legally controlled them, the slots acted, increasingly, like a virus in the body politic, dividing Idaho citizens against each other, changing the shape of towns, altering social life, wounding business and giving whole communities a surrealistic civic philosophy...
...glass doors of the Executive Wing of the White House are apt to fool a stranger-they open inward, in violation of Washington's fire regulations. In the first weeks of the Eisenhower Administration, the doors rattled constantly, as new hands tried to familiarize themselves with the place. But by last week there was little fumbling at the doors, the President and his staff had shaken down, and the office was ticking competently along...
...them. Perhaps an accident of planning has left you an escape route, and you break out, breathless, into the welcome air of some more coal yards. But do not count on your escape. For eventually you must arrive at that squalid square where all the one-way signs point inward. It is a large area, teeming with unshaven men who will approach you and offer you fifty dollars spot cash for your car and throw in a train ticket to Boston; a square where cars go to die. Sell your car there, and be glad to get out alive...