Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questions. Among his visitors during the week: British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart and Defense Minister Denis Healey, who brought the welcome news that any "adjustments" in British commitments east of Suez would be made "without significant loss of strength." On normal days, 1,200 cables cascade into Foggy Bottom; when things are bubbling, 1,800. They are usually bubbling. "The world is round," says Rusk. "Only one-third of its people are asleep at any given moment. The other two-thirds are awake and probably stirring up mischief somewhere...
...cutting the corner across the sea. Nicklaus' first drive splashed into the surf. So did his second. That set off a fruitless ten-minute hunt for the lost balls-during which one tournament official fell into the ocean accidentally and another dived in deliberately to search the bottom. Finally, Jack hit still another drive and settled for a double-double-bogey nine, a total...
Wilson promptly seized upon the event to chortle that "the Tory Party is split from top to bottom." Heath took to the telly to explain that "this resignation does not mean that I am against discussion of party policy or criticism, but there is a right and a wrong way of doing things." Few Tories would quarrel with that, but not a few wondered if Heath had "shot the right fox." More than Maude's maunderings, it has been the outspoken speeches of Shadow Defense Minister Enoch Powell opposing the official Tory positions on defense and incomes policy that...
...filled life ring, pumps compressed, filtered air through two 25-ft. hoses down to masks worn by aquanauts below. Not only does it free the serious diver from cumbersome, expensive scuba tanks but, plopped over the side of a boat, it lets the yachtsman get to the bottom of any problem he might have-even if it's only barnacles...
Even the book's title is morbid; it comes from the movie, "King's Row" in which Reagan, discovering that both his legs have been amputated, utters the anguished line, "Where's the rest of me?" And the first chapter begins "with a close-up of a bottom as the newly born Reagan gets whacked into consciousness...