Word: uprighteously
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...bags. If Pathfinder landed upside down, however, the antenna would be crushed against the ground. It would then be at least two hours before the bags could deflate and one of three metal petals that make up the sides of the ship could open, turning the entire structure upright. Only then could a more powerful transmitter inside send out a brighter radio beacon...
Although millions of us were born between 1965 and '77, please remember that millions of us reject the rude, crude and morally vacuous "values" your interviewers chose to use as examples of Generation X. Like our parents and grandparents, we know that only honest, hardworking and morally upright individuals can truly influence this nation in the right direction. Your incessant make-believe reporting has convinced many that these timeless virtues aren't relevant in today's world. Wrong again. CHARLES AKERS Caracas...
...area of the team was the special teams. The placekicking and punting units might have cost the team some close games. In the three-point loss to Dartmouth, for instance, sophomore Ryan Korinke missed three field goals of 37, 39 and 44 yards, including one that hit off the upright...
...value of independent thought and asserts that the propensity to confront authority and orthodoxy was one of the hallmarks of a great intellect. He writes: "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions... I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways." Perhaps it is no surprise that Emerson was sometimes considered a heretic during his academic career at Harvard...
...surely it's not possible that he could have been thinking about it on that fateful night in Florida last March. Yet his unlucky stumble on golfer Greg Norman's stairs has served at least one purpose. Let the record show that it has landed him in the upright, three-legged company of Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Ah, but does the cane make...