Word: upright
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...Like Alussi, deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh is seen as upright and secular. But he's a Kurd, which would make him unacceptable to the country's Arab majority. Besides, the Kurds already have the presidency (Jalal Talabani), and several important ministries...
...other convicts then jumped him and beat him. He was pushed to the ground, his hands manacled behind his back, and held down while his head was shaved. When Yuan made her monthly visit on June 19, he still had bruises all over his body and couldn't walk upright because of blows he had received to his side, she said. "There are other people in jail who deserve attention, but Chen's case is very unusual because he is blind, and it is so clear he was imprisoned unjustly," Yuan said...
...line of students in tank tops and t-shirts extended 30 feet outside the door to Science Center D. Inside, sheets of plastic enveloped the rostrum, a man in a top hat and a clown suit jogged across the stage, and a black four-string Ibanez bass leaned upright next to a drum set. The plastic would be necessary; the bass and drums would not. Pop-rock group OK Go’s appearance last night was billed as a “Battle of the Bands,” but instead of making music, the group famous for dancing...
...Hens in factory farms are forced to live their entire lives in barren batterycages—unable to stand upright, walk, or spread their wings—each given only 67 square inches of space,” Nussbaum wrote in an e-mailed statement. “Many battery-caged hens are already crippled with broken wings and legs, if not already dead, at the time of slaughter...
...shovel in the ground, and less than an hour later turned up fragments of early 17th century ceramics. Over the next few months, Kelso and a team of volunteers uncovered a series of circular stains in the soil--the marks of logs that had once stood upright but had long since rotted away...