Word: upright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knocking into each other and falling to the floor. The driveway before the building buckled up before me as I bounced over it, while concrete slabs thudded down from above. We flung ourselves on the compound lawn, but the earth shook so violently that some of us were jerked upright and bounced about like popcorn...
...Foundation, Gerschefski settled down in a farmhouse in West Cambridge, N.Y., above the Ramapos, with his wife, who is also a composer and pianist, and their five children, aged one to 13 and ranging in talent from piano and trumpet through the cello. The nearest piano was an old upright in tiny Whiteside Church some miles away on a dusty country road. Gerschefski went there on foot each morning to work on his ballad, repay ing the parson on Sundays for the use of the piano by playing for the congregation...
...common method of pickling corpses, as late as the 19th Century. The body of Admiral Nelson, who was killed aboard the Victory off Cape Trafalgar, was undressed except for a shirt and jammed into a large, upright cask of brandy. One black and stormy night, the marine guarding the cask noted in terror that its lid was slowly rising. He hurriedly summoned the ship's surgeon, who spoke knowingly of a disengagement of air. Some of the brandy was drawn off from the cask's lower bunghole and it was refilled from the top. The legend that sailors...
...drawing may be noted briefly. It is a portrait, on page 21, of two obese rodents of an unidentifiable species. One lies flat on its stomach and look despondently downward; the other sits upright, its lifeless paws hanging limply over an expanse of white paunch, looking at the reader with a stony gaze of rather appalling fixity. I don't know exactly what they are, lemmings, perhaps, meditating the future, or maybe some sort of crazed marsupials planning to take over the world and not very pleased at the propects...
Trotting horse races take place Sunday afternoons at Derby and Lanconia, New Hampshire. Keeping the pacers upright on the bare ice demands strong hands and steady nerves from the drivers. At the finish line a blanket, a ribbon, or even a shiny new bag of oats awaits the winning horse...