Word: upright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tastefully displayed against the wall, and there is a pedestal set at the end of the room, with a bowl of flowers on it. As the commanding point ki the room, the pedestal has been designed to "go back to nature itself, like almost all religions." It is an upright section of a mahogany tree, believed to be from the Belgian Congo, and about 250 years...
Until this f. 3.5 entrepreneur came along the baseball umpire was a valuable if not always respected citizen. At worst he was a mainstay for cartoonists. At best he was a grand figure standing upright and strong as the pop bottles whomped off his chest protector, his arms folded and jaw set, as the players slunk to the showers and the managers fumed in their dugouts. His eyes were weak but his word was law and his wrath was a sight to behold...
...sake cup; on the third, the shape of a soup bowl; on the fourth, the shape of a saucer." By the end of the fourth day, the pale pink petals begin to wither and turn brown. Soon, all that is left is the seed pod, splayed out like an upright shower nozzle. "It just goes to show you," said Dr. Lotus, "that plants do not undergo evolutionary changes in 2,000 years. Even the size and color is the same...
Jane Barkley kept a sharp eye on the Veep's health, shorted him on his favorite hog jowl & turnip greens, and talked him into more salads, fruit and a slendering waistline. He still carries his railsplitter's shoulders as upright as a general, still has all his own teeth. Only his eyes are a problem: he can barely see without his thick-lensed glasses. Recently he came out of a successful operation for cataract and cracked to Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence: "You know I can see through a brick wall. The girls had better start wearing...
...Duluth City Council received a letter postmarked Athens, Greece, from one Jack Brockway, an Air Force lieutenant. In order to remain an upright local citizen, the young warrior wrote, he was enclosing 30,000 drachma (about $2) to pay for an old Duluth parking ticket. Safety Commissioner Ralph G. Fiskett announced that the ticket would be "on the house" and mailed the lieutenant a refund-in drachma...