Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shore of Lake Superior was covered by a shallow sea or perhaps a chain of lakes. The dry land was devoid of life; the atmosphere may have been unbreathable for most mod ern creatures. But in shallow pools, say the paleontologists, a dim kind of life was stirring. The bottom was covered with hard hummocks - mounds made of tight-packed vertical columns, a fraction of an inch in diameter, that were created by living matter...
...contrast between worldly and moral achievement. In A Promising Career, an inhumanly professional bachelor pursues his ambitions until his mistress, a Venus' fly trap passing as a violet, involves him in a scandal, ruins his career, sees him exiled to Ghana, where he hits the bottle, hits bottom, and discovers that he is human after all. In The Clever One, a successful, coldly unlikable lawyer meets an aging courtesan who marks him down for marriage and alimony, then sweet-cheats him at every turn until he finds her out, throws her out, and brokenly collapses-humbled, gentled...
Foremost in Scott's mind at present is the deadly internecine struggle within his own party. He frankly admits that the Republicans hit rock bottom and is attacking the problem from two angles. The first--and the motivation of his present college tour--is to try to draw young blood into the veins of the anemic GOP. The November debacle, Scott argues, has made the party of Lincoln the party of opportunity for those who want to make them selves heard in politics. His other tack is total war on the "lunatic fringe" which is desperately trying to salvage...
...bottom three slots were filled by converted tennis players Bernie Adelsberg, Bo Jones, and Howard Georgi. Adelsberg was undefeated for the season. Charlie Whipple and Peter Gable, a couple of experienced players, rounded off the team, which won 90 of 102 individual matches...
Unlike previous years, the team got off to a very successful start and even had Ivy title hopes for a short time. But then the bottom fell out of epee, and the sabre and foil didn't hold up the way they should have anyway...