Word: uprightness
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...figuring out ways to make those jobs comfortable, upright operations instead of nerve-racking, crawling-on-the-back business. His output from three big North American-run plants (Inglewood, Calif., Dallas and Kansas City) includes the famed Tokyo-raiding 6-25, the Army's standard advanced trainer, and a new Mustang, soon to be battle-tested, that looks like the best high altitude Army Air Forces fighter...
...historic groupings, now partly fused by war: the Roman Catholic Croats; the hardy, heady, Orthodox Serbs; the minority Slovenes. The Partisans made Marshal Broz president of the Committee and chairman of a special Defense Committee. Next they chose a presidium and placed at its head an aging, upright Croat: Dr. Ivan Ribar, first president of Yugoslavia's Constitutional Assembly after World War I. To aid Democrat Ribar, the Committee named Serbian Communist Mosha Pijade and two other vice presidents, one a Croat, one a Slovene. Then they were ready...
...breathing-bandage should press the chin, the tongue should be kept out of the way (if a patient cannot control his tongue, it can be fastened to the clothing by a single stitch through it). Lives may be saved if men wounded in the lower jaw are kept either upright or lying face downward. Recumbent they may choke to death...
...scenes as well: Francie and her brother collecting junk in the Brooklyn slums; purchases of five-cent soup bones, stale bread and smashed pies; the traditional childhood customs and mores of the Brooklyn streets. Example: storekeepers on Christmas Eve tossed their unsold trees at children; if the children stood upright under the impact of a tree, they could have it free...
...Chapman and Keats went on tour with a pair of performing bears. Keats refused to believe they were tame and harmless, but consented to feed them. Chapman found Keats injecting a local anesthetic into the bears. They were numb but upright. "Chapman flew into a feverish temper and demanded the reason for this brutal and cynical outrage. 'There's safety in numb bears,' Keats said...