Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simplifying at the top and giving new scope for initiative at the bottom, the Kremlin is admitting that Russia's economic engine is painfully sputtering. Industrial growth and national income have both lost momentum since the early 1950s, now lag behind that of the U.S. Moreover, after a bumper crop in 1964, Soviet agriculture this year is again in trouble. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, in his speech following Kosygin's, felt compelled to assure the Central Committee that "everything has been done to assure normal supply of bread production...
...mostly children (15 million) and old people (5.3 million). Half of the poor families are in the South. Poverty afflicts 40% of the nation's nonwhites, 40% of its farmers, 50% of the families headed by divorced, widowed or abandoned women. The fifth of the nation at the bottom gets only 4.7% of the country's personal income, while the fifth at the top gets...
...exception. Most of the major waterways of the world have become cesspools of progress. In medieval Paris, the streets were open sewers, but the Seine flowed so clearly that from the bridges it was possible to see fish swimming among the stones and green plants on the bottom. Today, after an energetic cleanup campaign, the streets are clean, but the Seine is murky and grey, except for the occasional white fluff of detergent suds. Once England's M.P.s fished for salmon in the Thames at Westminster. No more. In Poland, the Vistula's filtration system is clogged with...
...backgroud information on the subject has been building ever since the greeks advanced the notion that the earth rotates on its axis. Left to itself, a tub of water should theoretically be influenced by the rotation of the earth and go down a drain in the tub's bottom in the same direction as the earth is spinning-which would look clock wise to an observer hovering in space hovering in space above the Southern Hemisphere, Counterclockwise to an observer in the north. The theory was convincing enough, but so difficult was the proof that only recently...
...always tries to answer requests, except for songs written after 1932. She died then. Skeptics claim that the music is played by a hidden, live pianist on a keyboard mechanically mated to the keyboard that shows, and that the drinks are emptied through a hole in the bottom of the glass. The management sneers at such ridiculous unoccult thoughts...