Word: outwardly
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...though the school would remain Catholic and its president a priest of the order. This was a radical step in Catholic education, where virtue and even legitimacy are often judged by proximity to the church hierarchy. To Hesburgh, however, ecumenical leadership was essential to turning the university's vision outward toward the world...
...begin to talk, and Frances receives a painful reproof from her old friend Alice: "I thought it was important how we appeared to the world . . . It's not that what's inside isn't more important. Of course it is. But I thought you and I believed that our outward selves should reflect, as far as possible, the things we stand...
...indicted on federal charges that he extorted more than $50,000 from Wedtech. Bronx Congressman Robert Garcia is said to be under investigation for accepting bribes, and federal officials suggest that as many as 20 public and private figures will eventually be indicted. Wedtech's tentacles groped upward and outward...
...make no mistake, there is still a big difference between Marine boot camp and Outward Bound. In one platoon at the M.C.R.D., half the recruits admitted they were afraid of heights. Now they are about to endure what the Marines call the "slide for life," clambering up a 35-ft.-high wooden tower and then descending headfirst down wires that stretch across a muddy ditch. A recruit clings like a frightened tree sloth to the wire. Then, slowly, his grip loosens and he plunges into the muddy water. "You just let go. You didn't even try," snaps the angry...
...surrounding the core. The interior of the sun will now be hotter than ever, a dense core of incandescent helium surrounded by a thin shell of hot, fusing hydrogen. Over the next few hundred million years, heat from the core will drive surface layers of the sun so far outward that they will cool to about two-thirds of the current 6,000 degrees C surface temperature, and redden. The sun will have become a red giant, so large that it will engulf the planet Mercury, perhaps extending to encompass the orbit of the earth. Even if the swollen...