Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked into a nonfatal blast of buckshot. Soon afterward, two of the Algerian maquereaux were driving through the heart of Nice when another car pulled alongside and riddled them with tommy guns. Then two more of Bianchini's henchmen were disposed of: one was found dead at the bottom of a ravine with four bullets in his head; the other staggered into a bistro with his stomach full of shotgun pellets and groaned, "Take me to a hospital. I've just had an auto accident...
...scientists - will have two tons of scientific gear at their disposal. All of this should lead to important new discoveries in oceanology, marine biology and undersea geology - plus practical profits. The Aluminaut may hold out interesting possibilities in ship salvage, in drilling for oil and mining from the bottom of the ocean, says Reynolds Metals Executive Vice President J. Louis Reynolds, who conceived the aluminum submarine idea back...
Rolls stock, which had been priced as high as $6.44 per share only last November, hit bottom at the news: there were no takers at a penny a share. Rolls stockholders were not the only victims of disaster. Such creditors as Tallent Engineering ($2,400,000), Pressed Steel Co. ($1,200,000), and Hawker Siddeley ($151,000, for a company plane) have virtually no chance of recovering their claims. There was even the question of how housewives would be able to get guaranteed repair service on John Bloom's washing machines. Shocked into action, the London Stock Exchange last...
...they hardly look like prospectors. Yet hundreds of scuba divers on Florida beaches these days are out for treasure, not pleasure. Some have already struck it rich. In the past six weeks alone, more than $1,000,000 in lost gold and silver has been fished from the ocean bottom off Florida's east coast. With every reported haul, more and more Sunday divers take to the water, propelled by bubble-bright dreams of gleaming doubloons and pieces of eight, of jeweled swords and brassbound chests of bullion nestled in the coral...
...duty. Bond moved easily through all levels of society, the .25 Beretta automatic snug in its shoulder holster, and was as conspicuous for his catalogue of brand names as for his consumption of alcohol, racing cars and gourmet meals. Possibly due to his early upbringing in Pett Bottom, near Canterbury, Bond was an inveterate womanizer, and his tastes were truly catholic, ranging from such blue-veined aristocrats as Tatiana Romanova to ex-lesbians such as Pussy Galore. Though thoroughly amoral, Bond nevertheless served the public good-a combination that proved irresistible to an age dedicated to affluence and to being...