Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life. Never high, Russia's living standards today touch rock bottom. Hunger and overwork are bad enough. But the Russian has also to cope with shortages of nearly every item of daily use, from frying pans to buttons and pencils...
...From the base at Voroshilovgrad, Russia's Pittsburgh, against the eastern bottom of the German pocket. Here, this week, the Germans abandoned Taganrog, which survived the great Red offensive of last winter. In this pocket, too, Soviet flyers saw the Nazis blow up dumps and defense-a telltale of retreat...
...Dark Eyes", which opened last night at the Plymouth, is a mixture of occasional humor and bad taste. Funny in parts, the show falls through the bottom when it attempts to sketch human beings. It is excellent only with wooden butlers...
...intelligent without thick lenses, mature without even half trying. She seldom goes to London's gaunt nightclubs, does not smoke, but loves to dance. Her newest, proudest possession: a pair of gold earrings cut like wheat tops and curled along the edge of her ears from top to bottom. She bought them herself...
Australia's economy is out of joint, the barrel of Australia's limited manpower has been scraped to the bottom, every town and city is suffering from overcrowding, food shortages, lack of personnel in ordinary services. Domestic servants are as scarce as the platypus. It is a prospector's job to buy a package of cigarets or a glass of beer. The people's clothes are getting shabby. It is hard to buy simple things like matches and writing paper, impossible to buy golf or tennis balls, almost impossible to buy a razor blade...