Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Demand for Involvement. One of the main features of his administration, from top to bottom, is the demand for involvement. Often he telephones city agencies without identifying himself and, if the voice on the other end is rude or indifferent, administers a mayoral dressing down. He can be snappish and imperious, exclaiming "I am the mayor!" or "Didn't you come prepared?" His disdain for established procedure puts down bureaucrats and raises hackles, but it gets things done; when he found that it would take months to appropriate a few thousand dollars to install fire-hydrant sprinklers in slum...
...fill this breach in his team's ranks, Barnaby has called on junior John Whit-beck to play number nine and moving five men up a slot. Barnaby also looks to his bottom three--John Harwood, Yoshiharu Akabane, and Michel Scheinmann--for improved performances...
...hoping Harwood has finally come of age," Barnaby said. "My bottom three have all been gaining in maturity rapidly. If they lose their early jitters, we're going to be one heck of a good team...
Roll collar granny prints epaulets mitotic paisley double-breasted checks shiny hankie serpent tie four buttons bouffant Tom Jones sleeves French cuffs wide leather belt suede spade polka dot high rise plaid low rise dress non-dress stovepipe pinstripe bell-bottom subtle trumpet blaring--these clothes are moving, the whole store is moving. The music pounding out from the radio baby baby baby while these clothes whirl you around and around...
...damage to paintings and frescoes incurred by the change in humidity be known for many years. In addition, all wood panels, furniture, sculpture, and intarisa may swell unevenly and crack as a result of the saturated atmosphere or partial immersion. A piece which was touched only at the bottom by the moisture may split all the way to the top as a result of this uneven swelling, and much of the paint might chip off. Cheese cloth and rice paper can be used to hold the paint in place until normal conditions resume but much of it still...