Word: uprighteous
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...moving through a 90° arc, their bodies laid back, almost horizontal, at the end of each stroke. Oxford, though, rowed in an un-British style-their sweeps were shorter, the oarsmen pulled in shorter arcs, and at the end of each stroke the eight crewmen were still almost upright on their seats; they were depending on legs and arms for their drive...
...Geoffrey Beaumont is a learned and dedicated man of the cloth. In the gloom of his musty church in London's Camberwell section, he conducts services for his working-class parishioners in language hallowed by generations of solemn Anglican usage. But when he sits down at his creaky upright parlor piano, he is likely to let himself go in the foot-stomping rhythms of the South Side jukeboxes. Last week he held a little party at the vicarage to display an unusual wedding of his two talents: a Mass set to popular rhythms and already known...
till-now look lean forward expectantly. Dumpy ladies in basic black sit corset-upright and clutch stout, thick purses; the men from Seventh Avenue flick at their silver-white ties, exchanging grunted comments. The babble quickly hushes as the first model appears, and upon each face falls a stolid mask of calculated indifference, for any flicker will betray the spectator's interest to watching competitors...
...only a few years ago that the romantic young man of action could close his eyes and envision himself a fearless union leader. With a small army of the down trodden but upright marching behind him, he would brave the company goons who surrounded the steel factory where wages were worse than working conditions and the boss beat his wife. But even the most wishful of modern day dreamers cannot avoid thinking that a union leader is a paunchy, jowelled man with a cigar in his right fist and a Madison Avenue lawyer in a tweed suit at his left...
...struck them as being a lot more human than the middle and lower classes. The broken, frontier-barred Europe of today is the "legacy'' they left behind; their saddened heirs look back upon them not with the anger of indignation but with the hungry envy that an upright sparrow might feel for a bone-lazy peacock...