Word: inwardness
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Lawyer Joseph A. Padway, barrel-shaped and bull-voiced, had taken up the morning with his arguments for the defense. The presence of Padway, A.F.L.'s brightest legal light, gave John much inward satisfaction. The A.F.L. hierarchy might hate and fear Lewis for the way he had assaulted them in the past, but they had to come to his support on an issue like this. Padway was the big opening gun in the battery of defense...
Moral Collapse. The physical destruction, one soon discovers, constitutes only a secondary-almost a minor-problem. After all, there are bulldozers and concrete mixers and prefabricated building methods. . . . But what will repair the inward damage, the spiritual destruction? . . . Nothing. Something has happened to Europe's ideas of honor, of morality, of faith, hope and charity which goes so deep that no restorative power now in evidence will measure up to the task of restoration...
keep the glider in the earth's orbit, so the great pull of the sun would make it spiral inward toward the orbit of Venus...
Emily Post writes (TIME, Aug. 19) regarding Russel Wright cups-"A thick edge-especially one curving inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides...
...pawnshop bonds. Soon some 50 Parisians were killed rioting against "the swindlers and assassins in the Chamber of Deputies." Half a dozen bureaucrats fled, or, like Stavisky, were "found dead." Two French Cabinets crashed. Whatever else he may have done, Stavisky revealed France's inward rottenness to the watchful eye of Hitler...