Word: inwardly
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...composing music up to the very day of his death. . . . Fred Fisher could turn out hits as easily as he could brush his teeth. It was five operations and three years of cancer that turned my father inward to the decision that led him to end his suffering...
...will be one door (a thick plate) and two windows, one of them set in the center of the door. Instead of glass, or the quartz used by William Beebe in his record-holding (3,028 ft.) bathysphere, the windows will be Plexiglas cones with the narrow ends pointing inward. Professor Piccard theorizes that the pressure will squash the elastic Plexiglas windows firmly into their sockets...
...Harry keeps howling for his price. Finally a tall old man with white hair waves his hand toward his face, palm inward. Harry nods his head and the roar stops. Then Harry turns to the red-faced one. who looked as though he was about to kick Harry in the groin ten seconds ago. Harry says calmly: 'Haven't had time to play. Too cold. I been reading on how to correct that slice.' The red face nods sympathetically...
...bowels and nerves than about the Laureate wreath he was born to inherit." He was almost as observing about himself: "I know that I could write volume after volume as well as others of the mob of gentlemen who write with ease; but ... I have not the strong inward call, nor cruel-sweet pangs of parturition, that prove the birth of anything bigger than a mouse...
...Nazi conquest and (promoted to ambassador) shared in its tragic return. His reports, once prized for their wit, have recently been soberly serious. A philosophic democrat, MacVeagh has seen Greece, which gave the word democracy to the world, sick from within and under assault from without. To cure the inward sickness, MacVeagh holds emphatically, in his quiet voice and brilliantly phrased dispatches, that the U.S. must move in and virtually run the country to make its aid effective. Yet, with Byron, he has "dreamed that Greece might still be free," and striven with Byronic fervor to make the dream come...