Word: outward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although the average door opens inward, your home would be protected far better if you changed the hinges so that it would open outward. If done, your door could never be kicked...
...like birds with golden wings the measured bell notes fly outward and upward, passing with clear and faint regret the ultimate slender rush of cross and spire; and how like the plummet lark the echo, singing, falls...
Despite the outward emnity between the Council and Rudolph, he actually performs a valuable service for them--taking the heat of citizen complaints. Some years ago--before Rudolph's time--the Council had direct control over traffic problems. "Sometimes they loved it. They were close to the people. They'd spend hours arguing over where to put a traffic light," one longtime Council observer recalls. But the votes gained from citizens who had a new traffic light near their home were balanced off against the votes lost when somebody didn't get the light he wanted. That, and the growing...
...monologues rests not on the author's familiarity with this kind of sociology, but on the fact that few writers of his generation can match his ability to perceive and record manners and minutiae, or equal him in relating life's inner tumult to its outward appearances of order...
...finding has profound implications for cosmologists, most of whom now believe that the universe began about 10 billion years ago with the explosion of a primordial clump of densely packed matter. The fragments of the original "big bang" have been expanding outward ever since, but at a rate that is steadily decelerating be cause of gravitational pull of each particle of matter on all the others. If the total mass of the universe is less than a certain value, cosmologists say, gravitational pull will never fully overcome the momentum imparted by the big bang; the universe will then continue...