Word: uprightness
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...Sporting Authority only soccer demands more from a man. The most grueling version of motorcycle racing, motocross requires that besides fighting the myriad obstacles along the one-and-a-half to two mile track, the rider must also battle gravity and centrifigul force in order to keep his bike upright. The result, says American motorcycle Associaties (AMA) efficial Don Woods, is that "you spend almost as much time in the air as on the ground...
...China, both of which reopened recently. The Protestant one, opened last Easter Sunday on a street opposite Peking's Tung Tan shopping center, is served by the Reverend Kan and his assistant, a 50-year-old deacon. A white-haired little old Chinese lady plays hymns on an upright honky-tonk piano. The hymns and the service are all in Chinese, even though the congregation is mostly European and only four members are actually Chinese...
...birth of a baby girl, a Navajo woman was supposed to find a spider web and to rub it on the child's arm so that her fingers would never tire of weaving. When the girl grew of age, she began weaving between two upright trees, and she created her patterns without any kind of preliminary design. The magic tradition, according to Spider Man's message, "is yours to work with and to use following your own wishes...
...grave, to New Or leans with a few pickings from their once sumptuous possessions, young Charles to New York and a distinguished career at the bar. Throughout - and here is the final secret of the book's fascination - they show them selves at once courageous and uncomprehending, walking upright and blind into doom...
...prince of Harlem who, though often among the people, always remained just a bit aloof. Yet he was also a product of the black ghetto. Harlem's taverns and nightclubs were among his favorite places. There he could indulge his almost compulsive need for camaraderie. Energetic and upright when it suited his purpose, young Powell used his personal magnetism and oratorical ability to draw participants to marches, boycotts and demonstrations designed to pry jobs out of white Harlem merchants and businessmen. Powell parlayed his popularity into public office in 1941, when he became the first black elected...