Word: uprightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personnel and equipment have changed, so have pinball habits and morals. The old master of the rolling sphere stood calm and upright by his machine, priming with but a gentle nudge at an opportune moment, playing a cautious, skillful, and fairly conservative game. In contrast to the suave, sure fingered pre-war man, the postwar pinball virtuoso crouches hungrily over his mechanical Christmas tree hammering it viciously and helping out with body English. Others stand aloofly at a distance so as better to see the lights flash...
Bleeding but upright, Vail turned from the phone, pulling his Colt from its hip holster; he pumped six shots at the manacled prisoners. Deliberately, he reloaded and pumped six more. When the smoke cleared away, both men were dead...
...Bingham has a wonderful time. For the first time since the Holy Cross game he could contemplate the forty dollars in the bank represented by a pair of upright, non-demolished goal posts. Then too, he was able to gleefully anticipate the long green from additional Yale game applications that Saturday's victory will surely bring...
...been concerned with the training of the American boy, a very fine species of a distinctly wild animal. Our menagerie is up on the hills just outside Morristown, N.J." In 1916 President Eliot advised him to carry on giving advice to parents, but for a consideration. "A very upright man," muses Woodman on Eliot. "Never leaned on anything or anyone." At all events, he set up private offices as a vocational adviser in New York, and stayed there until his retirement...
...amateur superintendents can even get an idea of how high the library will be when completed by looking at the 80-foot boom of the crane which, in an upright position, approximates the height of the building...