Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April 30, 1942, H.M.S. Edinburgh, a 10,000-ton British cruiser outward bound from the Soviet port of Murmansk, was attacked by a Nazi U-boat and destroyers in the icy Barents Sea. The ensuing naval engagement was brutish and long: after being torpedoed by a U-boat, the Edinburgh mauled one destroyer but was again torpedoed and finally, while drifting helplessly, was sunk by another British ship. Down with the cruiser went the 55 members of her 850-man crew who had died in the fighting-and entombed with them went five tons of gold ingots, contained...
...Lincoln was born in a frontier hovel. Later generations crowded ten to a squalid room in Lower East Side ghettos. Yet Americans operated on a premise of expansion and progress: the private home- more important, more basic, than the automobile, that bright headlong vehicle of the dream- was the outward artifact by which Americans defined themselves...
...show is a picture of Robert Louis Stevenson. Ordinarily depicted as a dour, moody presence, Stevenson gave a photo to a fellow passenger on an ocean liner that meets Weston's dictum: it lays open a vital and engaging face. A forefinger of his clasped hands points outward like a conductor's baton, and intelligence, so rarely caught on film, dances in warm eyes...
Some professors cite Skocpol as a female junior professor who suffered from departmental male biases. "Theda is a very good case to talk about standards," one female professor says. "Objectively she's attained all the outward trappings of it--all the external credentials, all the awards, her book's got fabulous reviews. Since she's clearly made the standards, people are pretty upset...
Today the archives are in the Apostolic Library, in the same building as the Vatican Museum. By 1950 the library extended onward and outward to include some 30 miles of shelf space. These shelves are crammed with thousands of bound volumes and huge leather boxes, most of them 3 ft. high and up to 10 in. thick. Each box contains scores, even hundreds of documents...