Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scrawl "NOT ENOUGH TIME!" on the bottom of your blue book; channel that aggression onto Confi-Guide form. But do it quickly, and return your constructive criticism of all lower and middle group courses to the cartons we have placed in your dormitory for the purpose...
...Salvador, helped the Dominican Republic set up its own Air Commando units. In a spirit of international camaraderie, Guatemala awarded the U.S. instructors its own Air Force wings at a graduation party, required the Air Commandos to down a bottle of local liquor to reach the wings at the bottom...
...point today's used-car market will be saturated. Year after year, used-car sales have steadily climbed: 1962's sales of 11.8 million were 13% over 1961, and this year's estimates reckon on another 10% gain. The increase in sales comes mostly from the bottom of the market-from teen-agers now reaching driving age, who grab up the six-and seven-year-old cars. A sale to one of them enables the previous owner to buy a newer used car for himself, so the effects continue right up the line to the newest models...
Even as a phenomenon for study, institutionalized religion did not attract James. Religious experience, he felt, should be first-hand, vital, and the remedy for otherwise incurable maladies of the soul. "At bottom the whole concern of both morality and religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether?" Assuredly the moralist assents to the reigning order, but he may endure it with "the heaviest and coldest heart, and never cease to feel it as a yoke." The religious man, on the other hand...
...makes no difference what pretensions the philosopher may parade as to the coersive nature of his arguments. Whatever principles he may reason from, and whatever logic he may follow, he is at bottom an advocate pleading to a brief handed over to his intellect by the peculiarities of his nature and the influences in his history that have moulded his imagination. William James...