Word: uprightness
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...ride did have its share of bumps, literally. During rough spells, I was unable to type without the cursor bouncing across my laptop screen. Back in the dining car, where a line snaked into the next coach compartment, riders grabbed whatever they could to keep beverage and person upright...
...weather was pretty undesirable," said women's captain Alex Beale. "After it was clear that people were really struggling to keep their boats upright, [the race committee] cancelled the second day of sailing...
...verge of the greatest style shift since the end of World War II, when the glass and steel towers of bare-bones Modernism shouldered everything else to the margins. A very different future is visible today in a small outburst of buildings that repudiate the very notion of upright walls. Bellied-out sides, canted planes, solid walls that look like fluttering strips of ribbon, blade-edged triangular outcroppings and brassy materials that shimmer like something Cher would wear to the Grammys--what's under way here is a rethinking of space and form as complete as any since the spirals...
...when the man finished, he raised both hands toward Judas and said, "Jude, go to your father now; he'll need you for the planting. The others won't harm you; I'll warn them off." The man's upright hands were pierced with deep wounds, just below the palms...
...back of a dimmed astronomy room, then, when the professor's voice has turned into a droning Barry White blah blah blah, the secret to keeping your eyelids in their upright positions is filling up all of your senses with your own created stimuli. If you squeeze, massage and shock your body into awareness, your memories of college may be of lecture--rather than a cloudy recollection of your vacations to dreamland...