Word: uprightness
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...contrasting flavors. Until Vladimir encounters some afterthought muggers, everyone he meets is unfailingly helpful and kind; he has no difficulty finding jobs, an apartment, friends of both sexes. Yet every fairy tale needs to have a wicked witch; her broomstick is always useful as a lever to pry us upright in our seats and as a goad to keep us there. -By Richard Schickel
...arguments of those who oppose gun control. They claim that criminals will always get weapons, and therefore, gun control will only keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. Unfortunately the facts don't support his theory. Just as the guns that are owned by our upright citizens are often used against them, the rebels in El Salvador capture much of their artillery from supplies that the U.S. sends to the Salvadoran government...
...breaks through opaque prostration with its upright patience...
...when no confirmed champion operates from a position of strength, the Soviets and East Germans overreached themselves in technical ambition. Only Valova and Vasiliev managed to skate a short program free of bobbles. The Carrutherses, meanwhile, skimmed through the wreckage, their bloopers merely those of timing, not of standing upright. When the smoke cleared, they were tied for second going into the free skating. "Did we expect it?" Peter asked later. "Are you kidding...
Which may account for a basic appeal of these sports: their headlong assault on the weather. Or maybe it is the controlled craziness of the events. On surfaces difficult enough to walk on upright do these people race, leap, whirl, swerve, and then add an extra unnatural measure of defiance by going airborne. Fanatics. Only a spill proves them mortal. So reckless is their attitude that, watching them, one barely believes in the danger. Then someone's momentum is shattered, and a kid lies piled up in his skis like a broken bird. Silence replaces wonder...