Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of those without radios poured in to the CRIMSON. where a list was posted. Some started their search at the top of the list some at the bottom. As they passed each other in the middle. they smiled nervously. A number 30- who had started from the bottom found himself and gasped...
Those with birthdays drawn first will be the first to be inducted; those with birthdays drawn near the bottom of the list will be almost sure of exemption throughout the year. Those classified 1-A and not drafted during the year will drop into a lower-priority pool and will ordinarily be draft-exempt for the rest of their lives...
...from the Administration. The Haynsworth defeat showed that the party must broaden its appeal, not narrow it, Mathias contends, and the Administration ought to work more closely with its own progressive Senators. "There is a whole group of us in this boat. We're in such a rock-bottom situation that if the Administration does not do business with us, every bill that comes along will be a Haynsworth. By God, we've been standing in the marketplace for nine months, and it's time we were doing business...
...rock bottom now in these talks, so it doesn't really make any difference who sits around that table," one frustrated American official commented in Paris. The view from Washington seems similar and that helps explain why President Nixon last week accepted-"with great regret and warmest thanks"-Henry Cabot Lodge's resignation as chief U.S. negotiator at the deadlocked Paris peace talks. Lodge's deputy, Manhattan Attorney Lawrence Walsh, also quit. Both resignations will be effective...
When Madame du Châtelet died, Voltaire, by then in his mid-50s, did not noticeably absent himself from felicity. He was already having an affair with his niece, Marie Louise Denis, who in cited him to write letters praising her "round breasts" and "ravishing bottom." Less enthusiastically, Thomas Carlyle described Marie Louise as a "gadding, flaunting, unreasonable, would-be fashionable female...