Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inducement is a Schwinn "New World" bicycle, which will be handed out by Bow Street's Bicycle Exchange to the lucky winner of the race. Just what the victor is supposed to do with the cycle he won the race on is nuclear, but as Hegel says, onward and upward...
...hospital and District Health Department footed hospital bills (already upward of $3,500); laboratories ran expensive tests free; the Red Cross furnished the necessary plasma. Six strangers, all servicemen, volunteered skin grafts. In December, when Mike was at his lowest, the simultaneous arrival of four enormous birthday cakes from well-wishers gave his morale a badly needed boost...
...Development-and an optimist who tries to grow potatoes among New Hampshire's rocks-tore into Osborn's gloomy theories. His main point: population increases, all right, but the world's living standard increases first. When "a lid is removed," both science and population burst upward, "but science gets there first." This is followed by a leveling off at a higher standard. "And thus," said Bush...
...professional baseball player doing what I'm paid for, which is to get batters out." Against one Cincinnati batter, he fired his big, jug-handled curve (the best in baseball), then a screwball, and then the fast one. The umpire's thumb jerked upward; the batter, Outfielder Frank Baumholtz, was out on three pitched balls...
...women of New Crete have a wonderful time choosing husbands, but sex, for the elite, is only for breeding purposes; the rest of the time, explains a poet, "we lie side by side, or foot to foot, without bodily contact, and our spirits float upward and drift in a waving motion around the room." Homosexuals and other biological misfits, such as hens that cannot lay eggs, are treated to euthanasia. (The same goes for those who violate "custom" and are repudiated by their class.) Otherwise, all violence, even impoliteness, is tabu-though occasionally New Cretan males are allowed...