Word: outward
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Judging from all outward appearances, Follen St. could be any residential roadway in any suburban neighborhood in the U.S. But area residents say that they have had one constant reminder this year that Follen St. is not just anywhere, that it is right next-door to the nation's oldest institution of higher education...
...controversial report suggests the disease often begins in younger women who have no outward sign of bone problems. The findings, reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine by a team from the University of British Columbia, raise the possibility that more than half of all healthy women in their 30s and 40s could be suffering from bone damage as a result of subtle, undetected disturbances in their menstrual cycles. But some experts doubt the conclusions and call for follow-up trials before doctors change their approach to the disease...
...earthquake that virtually destroyed San Francisco in 1906. The eyewitness accounts read like the tall tales of Baron Munchhausen. The ground rippled with waves as though it were an ocean. The Mississippi River raged with waterfalls and rapids. Fountains of sand erupted in gritty geysers. Shock waves, pulsing outward for hundreds of miles, wrecked boats in the Charleston, S.C., harbor, cracked masonry in Cincinnati, and caused church bells to peal and buildings to shake as far away as New York City and Boston...
...being used to play the part of a grandmother. In the past he has directed performances of The Elephant Man where he used a handsome male actor to play the role of John Merrick. Hogan says the actor was "representing what was inside the character rather than his outward appearance...
Hill's interest is the various and ever changing ways to define success. At first the story seems to look outward, at how anyone's ambitions reveal his or her class and background. But the focus gradually shifts inward, to a deepening psychological exploration of a writer of anonymous suicide threats, and reveals how much a successful person may depend on the reaction of others to provide a missing sense of self-worth. At the center of Hill's plot is an outdoor-extravaganza staging of a medieval "mystery" play -- a cunning hint from Hill that his work, like...