Word: uprighteously
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...even been up to our rooms." ("Degenerate" is an acknowledged category of gambler in Las Vegas, one step ahead of "compulsive" on the road to ruin.) In perfect synchronization, the two women lean over with brushes in both hands, and each beats her hair into a froth. Upright again, both declare, "Ugh! Straw!" The little bimbo says, "I'd never put color on my hair. People would think I was phony...
...trials in May. For death-defying suspense, the spectacle of Gabriela reeling to a 37th-place finish was the most prolonged horror of the Games. She is a ski instructor in Sun Valley, Idaho, grotesquely adept at staying upright. Nobody in the Coliseum could either help, touch or help being touched by the looniness of the long-distance runner...
...whatnot are supported by a freestanding column. Another column supports a television set or computer monitor, as well as a cantilevered, tilting table that can hold a computer keyboard or serve as a writing surface. The columns can be placed anywhere. The computer disc drive goes in an upright console next to the chair. Diffrient maintains that "the energy you save by reducing the strain of holding yourself up and worrying about whether your back aches or your arms hurt is directly converted to the work at hand...
Suddenly the sound of the engines changed as the flight attendant rapidly recited that landing litany, make sure your tray tables are upright. Daria hugged herself, glancing around her seat for stray items. Home... She had suffered from bad dreams. But now almost immediately she was being returned to Ross, her love, and things would be better between them. He would have missed her Now things would be just fine...
...conceiving? Who becomes fat without eating?" Answer: Clouds. In ancient Greece, Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx: "What is it that goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening?" Answer: Man. (First he appears as a crawling baby, then upright in maturity, then in old age with a cane.) The Old Testament yields some difficult puzzles and praises those who solve them, like the prophet Daniel: "A notable spirit, with . .. the gift of interpreting dreams, explaining riddles and unbinding spells...