Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a final heave, the smaller Freeman stood up from his bottom position, reached back for Barry's leg, then gripped him around the mid-section, and turned...
Today's young man accepts none of the old start-on-the-bottom-rung formulas that directed his father's career, and is not even sure he wants to be A Success. He is one already...
...open-ended test tube with various layers of alumina and specially treated glass through which the parent substance is filtered. In the case of a parent such as molybdenum-99 (half-life: 2.8 days), technetium-99m (half-life: 6 hours) is produced, and it accumulates at the bottom of the tube (the cow's udder). The milked technetium can therefore be created only moments before it is put into a patient, and the doctor can scan its internal path while it is most active; yet within 24 hours, it will have decayed to an undangerous one-sixteenth...
...Demment intercepted a pass, rode off a defenseman, and flipped the puck off the bottom of the crossbar. Three minutes later Jack Garrity swatted in a knee-high rebound of a shot by Murphy, and the crowd rose in derision of "Birdman," as the goalie had been affectionately dubbed...
...opinion reverberates among the luthiers, or violinmakers, as well. Some figure that Stradivari got his wood from as far away as Germany, but most agree that the supple spruce in the tops of his fiddles came from the southern slopes of the Alps, and the curly maple in the bottom and sides from the eastern shores of the Adriatic. To find identical cuts of wood, U.S. Luthier Fernando Sacconi scavenged demolition sites in Italy last summer and salvaged planking from 400-year-old houses. To duplicate the seasoned willow that Stradivari used for braces, one U.S. luthier uses polo balls...