Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan store advertised the "bottoms-up tumbler," a 2-oz. glass with a nude female figurine across its base. It was guaranteed to tip over immediately if placed on a flat surface. Said the ad: "You can't put it down until you drink it down-and the result is, of course, gaiety galore...
...against dreamy Henry Wallace in Washington-and the 363 local gods of the Punjab's Kulu Valley. On Manhattan's Riverside Drive his devotees reared to his name a 29-story skyscraper, graded (like one of his own paintings of Himalayan mountains) from deep purple at the base to white at the top, and hung there 1,000 paintings from his facile brush. St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie devoted a "day" to him. Latvian churches prized his ikons. His paintings hung in 25 countries. League of Nations committees solemnly discussed his "Banner of Peace...
Each hair, say Emmelin & Feldberg, has a flexible bladder at its base. The hair itself is hollow and stiffened with silica. At the tip is a tiny bulb like a cork stuck on the end of a hypodermic needle. When the hair touches a victim, the bulb breaks off, exposing a point so exquisitely sharp that it slips right through the skin. Pressure on the hair shaft squeezes the bladder and injects poison into the victim's tissues. The result: a hot, burning sensation followed by a longer-lasting itching...
...defense sites occupied temporarily during the war, almost all had been restored. The remaining 14-fighter strips and radar outposts-would give the Panama Canal adequate defense in an air age. One of the fields, Rió Hato, would be built into a $25,000,000 bomber base, under a ten-year lease that could be renewed for a further ten years. Conceivably, with Panama defenses stabilized, the U.S. might now proceed to build a sea-level canal-if Congress had a billion dollars to spare...
...East. The headwall of Tuckerman, a cliff padded with over 200 feet of snow, has a maximum slope of above 45 degrees and is the scene of the annual Inferno races. This is strictly spring corn snow skiing, although the ravine basin and the Sherburn trail to the base of Washington are good all winter...