Word: upright
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...closed until the facial bones have grown. This may take a year or more. That period can be trying for both parents and child. First there is the shock of the baby's disfigurement. In addition, affected infants cannot suck normally; they must be fed in an upright position, often with an eyedropper or milk-soaked sponge. They also tend to remain hospitalized longer than normal newborns and grow less quickly. Later they may have speech problems...
...Leakey goes on to describe the earlier findings in South Africa of Raymond Dart and Robert Broom, who unearthed human ancestors more than 3 million years old, as well as to discuss Don Johanson's dramatic discovery of Lucy, the famous four-foot-tall Ethiopian who walked upright at least 3 million years ago. The find, Leakey notes, confirms that man's ancestors walked erect long before they began to develop the big brains that set them apart from more primal primates...
Chris Keyser, in the crucial role of John Proctor, carries this approach vigorously to its full implications. Proctor, an upright but far from blameless Salem farmer, is tortured by the need to prove to himself and to his truly unstained wife Elizabeth that he is, in fact, a good man. As the witch trials become a raging mania in Salem, Proctor becomes inextricably involved, dragging all his past failings to light--including his liaison a year before with Abigail Williams, the girl accusing the Salem women of witchcraft--but can finally do nothing except die for his beliefs...
...images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...
...piece was taken off view for conservation purposes," Susannah J. Fabling, assistant director of the Fogg Museum, said yesterday. She added that the statue needs to be rewelded between its lower and upright portions...