Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern of the last two Presidential elections is repeated, either: 1) this is the President's low point and Republicans may not even carry Vermont in 1944, or 2) the President at the top of the seesaw can expect to be at the bottom on Election...
...time to make these dope stories look good, Prich went off to the Army. His draft board reclassified him from 4F to lA; the Administration, sensitive to criticism of its under-38 bachelors, made no effort to defer him. Said Prich typically: "I guess they scraped the bottom of the manpower barrel and now they have to take the barrel...
...Governor was a shade too self-conscious about his State. Among the 48 States, Georgia ranks eighth from the bottom in illiteracy, fourth from the bottom in wealth per capita, and second from the bottom in its lynching record. Outstanding Mississippi ranks third, first, first...
...other piers, bristled thick along the shores, ships were loading, cargo booms swinging. Foodstuffs in great hills of cases, gasoline in drums, steel landing mats for foreign airfields, rails, boxes of mystery identified only by code words-all in ordered progression, heavy stuff on the bottom, to bring the ships "full and down...
Once McSorley's was home to 18 cats. At feeding time, no matter how brisk business was, Bill McSorley would leave the bar and bang the bottom of a tin pan. "The fat cats would come loping up, like leopards, from all corners of the saloon." If Bill wanted to close up while customers were still drinking their ale, he would drum on the bar with both fists, shout: "Now, see here, gents! I'm under no obligoddamnation to stand here all night while you baby them drinks...