Word: sideward
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...Blue will depend on a fullback attack in which the bread-and-butter series centers around the belly play. In its most common form, this play starts as an off-tackle smash by the fullback. The quarterback places the ball in his stomach and "rides" him with a sideward step toward the line of scrimmage. The signal caller can either leave the ball in the fullback's arms or he can pull it out, and run, pass, or hand off to a trailing halfback...
...your cover illustration showing Khrushchev leading his gang: Khrush (and the others) aren't wearing their golf caps in the approved style for gangsters -namely: visor of cap drawn down over one eye, snap button undone from its catch, and bag top of cap pulled hard backward, sideward, and downward over one ear-all indicating that the wearer is as tough as tar and twice as nasty...
Taking all the current economic figures on balance, the New York Federal Reserve Bank cannily reported that the economy "moved sideward" during March. Said the bank: "Hesitations of this type are not, of course, at all unusual during a course of sustained business expansion. But they always create uncertainty as to whether there has been a pause for breath which will be followed by renewed progress, or whether an advance warning of business recession has been posted...
Sidewash. But when a wave strikes a wall it may, instead of sweeping over, sweep sideward, right & left. If the Russians believe they cannot breach the wall, they may choose another course...
...languid walk from door to table the lustre-lacking eye, the half-closed mouth, the colorless cheek, the indifferent greeting with a sideward duck of the head, are undoubtedly considered the accurate external indications of a mind and body which have probed life's complexity, a mind which has said : "Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas;" a body which has answered : "Very true, it is 'the thing' to live and move and have our being, however, we must put up with...