Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underscored by the stock market's confident thrust toward the 1,000-point mark in the Dow-Jones industrial average and by the gross national product's one-year surge of $34 billion to an estimated level of $675 billion. Unemployment has practically reached such a rock bottom-at 4.1%, it is the lowest in more than eight years. The great American middle class, which constitutes about three-quarters of the nation, has never been more affluent or spent more freely...
...defiled by the taint of sordid greed." His successor was his nephew, Arthur Balfour, a languid genius with so exquisitely balanced an intellect that once, arriving for an evening party at a house whose staircase was split into two curves, he stood for 20 minutes at the bottom trying to find a logical reason for ascending by one side or the other. In France, it was a time when the Comte de La Rochefoucauld could still remark seriously of another aristocrat that his family were "mere nobodies in the year...
...bottom of the ladder, Harvard's Peter Brooks, Matt Hall, and Gordon Black are definite favorites, especially with the home court advantage...
...beginning . . . No mountains, no valleys, No bottom, no topless, No symphony, no jive, No Gemini...
Representing one of the largest collective risks ever taken by the College's admissions office, they are recipients of so-called "gamble-fund" scholarships--grants that since 1957 have brought at least 200 high school seniors with rock-bottom College Board scores and difficult back-grounds to Harvard. The students have come from urban slums, un-accredited Southern high schools, and migrant camps. Their parents, most likely, never finished high school and may have openly discouraged their going to any college, much less Harvard...