Word: uprightness
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...developing, then go back to high and try to be just one-half step behind the guard when he throws his block-so I can be past the tackier and on my way before he recovers." Jimmy rarely tries to fake a cut. "You have to fake from an upright position and you don't get power that way." He much prefers to use a clubbing forearm punch to discourage tacklers...
...Church of England in the 18th century has been justly described as "the Tory Party at prayer"; clerics still sigh over the Anglican failure to preach effectively to the city workers of the Industrial Revolution. Now even its impact on members of the Establishment seems minimal. The upright men among England's Top People live morally because a gentleman should do so, and not, so it seems, because the church tells them to. And among the passionate playboys of Mayfair-as the Profumo case suggests-a mention of the ethical teachings of the Church of England would seem...
...bronzed daredevils. But in the past few years, surfing has become something like a way of life for thousands of devotees all along the Southern California coast. Every weekend an estimated 100,000 surfers paddle into the briny on 7-ft. to 12-ft. balsa or polyurethane boards, struggle upright into a precarious balance with nature, and try to catch the big breakers coming...
...using improper language. The court refused and Bush declared that he had been using the word all his life and Hollowell had been the only Negro to object. Although Bush had just signed an affidavit submitted to him by the defense attorneys which said that he knew some upright, intelligent Negroes who owned property in Baker County, when asked this question on the stand he balked. Several Negroes were called to testify that they had never seen a Negro on the grand jury. Even the Sheriff, L. Warren Johnson, a huge hulking man weighing about 246 pounds and standing about...
...they have traditionally offered the nation is men born and raised in the exacting disciplines of leadership. If now, in addition to all the political and economic reverses they have suffered in the past year, Britons should conclude that Etonian and Harrovian leaders are personally no wiser or more upright-and in many cases they have proved flagrantly less so-than those whom they govern, twelve years of Tory government may end in a mighty flash of moral indignation mixed with ridicule...