Word: uprighteously
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...Roosevelt did not expect that Franklin would become a politician. "I hoped, she said, "that he would grow up to be a fine, upright man, respected in his home and in his own community - I hoped that he would grow up to be like his father." She once wanted him to become a diplomat, but she followed his rise in politics with devoted interest. When Franklin was elected President of the United States, she said simply: "I know he'll do his best...
...weeks: He "relishes the sitting position," smiles at the doctor. He accepts a ring or rattle, brings it to his mouth, although he is more interested in his visitor. When held upright he holds his head up and forward, laughs aloud, can sit propped for ten to 15 minutes...
...Leeb Family, he has been called the Family-Tree General. His friend Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm List, who commanded the Balkan campaign, once said: "If Leeb ever tried to smile, it would crack his face." His coldness has deprived him of friends, but he is respected as an upright professional soldier. He lost a son in Poland...
...putting together the bits of this argument Miss Boothe leaned further and further forward until the final sentence found her sitting bolt upright on the edge of her chair. She reached down for another cigarette, lit it and continued...
General Philip Neame, an engineering expert famous for a day at Neuve Chapelle in 1914 when he stood bolt upright on a parapet for 20 minutes, lighting the fuses of improvised jam-tin bombs with a cigaret and lobbing the bombs at the Germans. Also captured last week after a tank fight at the outpost of el-Mechili were Major General Michael Denham Gambier-Parry, tank strategist, and 2,000 men. Also captured in Libya, apparently while flying out to Egypt from Britain via Gibraltar and Malta, was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, who unhappily commanded British troops...