Word: uprightness
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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...
Most important improvement over the V-2 is the steering system. The V-2 was steered on take-off by graphite vanes in the discharge tube. By deflecting the hot stream of gases, they kept the rocket upright and on its course until it gained enough air speed to allow the rudders in the tail to take effect...