Word: inwardness
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...speculative London report suggested that the Nazis are using the same pressure principle to crush atoms. The crusher: A "Neuman" demolition charge, which explodes inward instead of outward. Used in a sphere, the Neuman charge might develop pressures of tens of thousands of tons per square inch at the center, perhaps enough to disintegrate an unstable atom such as uranium and release its explosive atomic energy. British scientists believe that such an explosion, though not far-reaching in area, would develop unheard-of violence at the point of impact...
Three Southern Senators not noted for their broad view of the world last week began to feel the inward stirrings of manifest destiny...
...testimonial to the best in his country's deep and simple honesty (as well as to the limitations of that honesty). People who had once thought Eakins scientific, dull, dogged, could scarcely fail to warm to the depth and humaneness of his perceptions; his heads, in particular, had an inward life, like well-banked fires. People who had once thought of him as an uninteresting, restricted colorist could not fail to see that in his taciturn, tender palette range he was as superb a colorist as Brahms was in music. Even those who spoke, with some justice, of Eakins' lack...
...normal feminine woman is passive and masochistic (enjoys her own sufferering). Her activity is directed inward, not aggressively outward. If it is intense, she may become the domineering mother, or active in children's homes and nurseries, but she is always conservative, matriarchal...
...made special contributions. The first skate that could be steered was invented by Yankee machinist James Leonard Plimpton in 1863. It consisted of two pairs of wheels which turned inward or outward as the skater shifted his weight. Modern skates still use this principle. Jackson Haines, father of figure skating on ice, mastered the pre-Plimpton rollers and toured Europe...