Word: uprighteously
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...Welles treat each other correctly, and even with a kind of friendliness at times. But mentally they are poles apart on most things. Welles is one of the swiftest, most businesslike administrators in the Government; Hull, perhaps because of his 24 years in Congress, is firm in his upright beliefs but lost in masses of papers and data that stack his desk...
...deck. Since the ship lay on her side, stagings had to be built for the divers and the workmen above water. Bulkheads of timber and concrete were set in place to divide the ship into compartments, permitting the use of controlled pumping. The plan was to roll the vessel upright, resting on the port bilge keel. By pumping and flooding, movement could be controlled and slowed to prevent a sudden lurch when the ship broke free...
Biggest single salvage job in history, the righting of the 82,423-ton liner will be no short, champagne ceremony. Next week the newspapermen and Navy guests who watch from the new wooden stands will see only the beginning of the operation. Not for weeks will the Lafayette float upright. Not for months will she be ready to sail again...
...turret I knew it was a bad hit when blood flecked my glass dome. When I could leave my gun for a moment I went down and pulled Steve back from the instruments, where his weight was making the pilot's job even tougher. I lashed him upright with a piece of chute harness...
...Enterprise fought, walked away upright and fought again. Until this week everything she did was a military secret. When she was damaged she covered up, backed off, got herself repaired and went looking for more trouble. She still...