Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drew strength. For the first time, a unanimity of purpose slammed into the Negro consciousness with the force of a fire hose. Class lines began to shatter. Middle-class Negroes, who were aspiring for acceptance by the white community, suddenly found a point of identity with Negroes at the bottom of the economic heap. Many wealthy Negroes, once reluctant to join the fight, pitched...
...rich wall-to-wall carpeting, without which no new office is self-respecting. The deeper the pile, the worse the shock-particularly if the material has a high synthetic fiber content, which gives a carpet outstanding durability but equally outstanding shock qualities. Next comes wool, with cotton at the bottom of the shock list. A com pounding factor is the increasing prevalence of metal desks, typing tables and wall trimmings, which are brisk conductors of any static charges that anybody can scuff up. Driest days are the worst. When the humidity falls below 20%, executives view every steel-framed desk...
...responsibility toward country and people. "Anybody can stage a revolution," he said after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1957. "The trick, once the revolution has been staged, is winning public approval." On doctor's orders, he went on the wagon, began housecleaning Thailand from top to bottom. He banned opium smoking, and when a rash of fires broke out in Bangkok's business district one winter, he ordered four Chinese merchants shot-a brutal but effective reminder that the annual custom of burning shops to collect insurance for the Chinese New Year was now taboo...
...Crimson's almost-perennial strength at the bottom of the ladder that stopped the Cadets. Sophomore star Dinny Adams walloped Rick Lofton, 15-7, 15-12, 18-14 in the number eight match, and veteran John Francis turned back Steve Lomback in the ninth spot...
Four engine companies and two ladder trucks from the Cambridge Fire Department responded to an "all out" alarm yesterday afternoon at 4:45 p.m. A short in an underground high-tension line caused a loud explosion which sent a manhole cover smashing against the bottom of a parked car on Dunster St. near the Information Center...