Word: perpendicular
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...best walking is a liberation, and a way of thinking. A creature like Toad is not a tree, but is designed to move across earth's surface, perpendicular to gravity and companioned by time. Somehow walking, thought Toad in his mellower moments, makes time a passage that is not only bearable but also sweet and festooned with an everlastingly changing array of scenery...
...Harvard group found, for example, that pressure waves travel more quickly when moving parallel to the earth's axis than when they are perpendicular. That could be explained if the solid inner core were a crystal, in which waves would travel at different speeds along different axes, but molten iron is hardly crystalline. Instead, Don Anderson and his colleagues at Caltech's seismological lab postulated the existence of iron rain. Their theory: the polar regions of the core are slightly flattened and tend to be cooler than the equatorial regions. The heat exchange between the two areas may then result...
...senior Andy Janfaza didn't need much time to bring the Crimson back. Driving into the left corner of the Clarkson end 30 seconds later, Janfaza reared and flipped a shot that slid perpendicular to the Clarkson net before hitting goaltender John Fletcher's pads and bouncing...
Against Cornell, Crimson goalie John Devin made an incredible save off a shot by Jim Goerz in the opening minutes of the middle period. Devin was perpendicular to the net as he made the kick save...
...geared steering mechanism first found in European cars. The system has fewer linkages than ordinary steering (one rather than five or six) so that the steering wheel's motion is transferred more completely to the bar connecting the wheels and hence the wheels. The rack, which is perpendicular to the steering rod, is this connecting bar. On the rack is the pinyon, or gears themselves. (I must admit that I did not learn about most of the parts of the automobile until my '71 Olds broke down in the wilderness of Oregon, requiring $3000 in repairs...