Word: uprightness
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...rounds, both fighters were still upright, still relatively unmarked. To the referee and one judge, the decision was close but clear-cut: Olson. That was enough, since the remaining judge carded it a draw. After the fight, Family Man (four children) Olson hopped a plane for San Francisco and home. Before he left, Bobo announced his plans for the future: "A big outdoor fight with Joe Giardello in New York this summer.-A real big-money fight...
...quick, Pudge was the first guard in football history to run offensive interference; on defense, Pudge favored an almost upright stance, disdaining to crouch. "Take it from me," he maintained, "a man is no good on his knees." Pudge made Walter Camp's first All-America team in 1889, made it again the next two years. At Yale, Pudge's teams, playing a 13-to 16-game schedule, won 53 and lost two (to Princeton and Harvard). The two defeats rankled in the heart of Pudge Heffelfinger until the day he died, at his home in Blessing, Texas...
Before you again attempt an article on a newspaper ... it would be advisable to contact more of the people who read the paper, and also read it yourself. You have given the impression that the Journal is an honest, upright paper, which alone has made Milwaukee, and which stands for all that is right and just, regardless of the storm raging about it. No one will deny that the Journal puts out a very pleasant-appearing paper and that the people who put it together are expert technicians. The society pages and the section devoted to news of local interest...
...enters a room. It is' noticeable in the flash-like speed in which he moves from sitting to striding in the middle of an interview. It is noticeable in a meeting when, with youthful effortlessness, he swings from a low slouch (pressure on third lumbar) to bolt upright...
...arrested in December 1940 and accused of being a British spy. The police interrogated him daily for six weeks. Before each session, the jailers softened him up by making him spend two or three hours in a tiny concrete cell in which he could not sit down, stand upright or lie down. "The box," said Ludig, "was illuminated by a very powerful bulb. [It gave] you a headache, and you were kind of blind after...