Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manpower shortage is relatively mild in the metropolitan press, but among the nation's small-city dailies, it is nothing short of critical. Traditionally, the little daily got first crack at the fledgling newsman, who found it difficult to start anywhere but at the bottom, and who knew, besides, that he could learn the ropes faster there. Now, however, the new man with any promise at all can bypass a humble apprenticeship. He does not have to start at the bottom-and seldom does...
...because it has a very profound calming effect." They also did "bellows breathing," a series of 30 very fast gulps of breath, and followed this with two violent breaths, one slow, deep breath, and then a long, hold breath with closed eyes. "This gets out the guck at the bottom of your lungs," Moynahan said...
...noise that comes back from the bottom is changed in frequency by the movement of the ship. This easily detected frequency shift is the celebrated Doppler effect, and a computer translates the change into speed-and-direction instructions for the automatic marking pen. A single dial adjusts the navigator to the scale of any standard marine chart. And last week's sea trial found the new Doppler sonar accurate within a startling...
...politically popular to go home empty-handed -governments and industry both have too big a stake in the success of the Common Market. The French have been particularly effective in floating stories that the market is floundering. Such reports, of course, strengthen their bargaining position. But at bottom the others are convinced that the French genuinely want the Common Market to work, for, in De Gaulle's ambition to lead Europe, his natural collaborators are his Common Market partners...
...lectures in anthropology, the late Professor Hotton accounted for the admixture of racial strains by saying that when two groups lived in propiquity they might have friendly relations, they might have cultural relations, but you could bet your bottom dollar that they were sure to have sexual relations...