Word: inwardness
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...recurrent theme voiced by the protesters is that the University has made a conscious effort since the late '60s to admit a more inward-looking group of applicants, screening out social activists who might cause the University trouble. Cann, Basset and others believe this admissions policy has been most intensely implemented concerning black applicants. Cann suggests that the University has stopped admitting many blacks of working-class background, focussing instead on admitting blacks from professional families who will be less likely to take social-activist positions...
...building. Inside the gleaming, metal-lined boxes lay the charred and mostly still unidentified remains of 576 victims of the worst accident in aviation history. The limbs were fixed in what pathologists term the "pugilistic position"?arms extended upward and bent inward. At Tenerife, this death posture, common in burn cases, looked like a gesture of supplication...
Europe was an inward pilgrimage of sorts. When he returned to Harvard he made a decision that had been forming for some time: he converted to Christianity. He now keeps a Bible in his office bookcase and frequently alludes to little-known passages, including one from the Book of Kings about a widow who had a cruse of oil that never ran out. In the U.S. today, he adds grimly, "There is no widow's cruse...
...write, it's zero outside. Snow is falling. But the Muscovites on their way to homes, universities or theaters this evening do not display the dour, inward-hunched, God-help-us visages of cold-stricken New Yorkers or Chicagoans. Snow is their friend, and servant...
With only two months experience, Sue has already defeated divers from Tufts, Dartmouth and Wellesley. She has learned all 21 different dives necessary to compete, and has overcome the fear of hitting the board on reverse and inward dives, a fear which she said originally hampered her performance...