Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottom of the list, in which Der Spiegel's readers went farther afield, was equally interesting. Stalin placed fifth with 172 votes, just ahead of Talleyrand and Metternich. Others who made the all-star list: Mohandas K. Gandhi (with 103 votes), Frederick the Great (55), Disraeli (43), Lenin and Caesar (33), Francisco Franco (24), Marx (11), and Truman (7). Clement Attlee got one vote-three less than Jesus Christ...
...great gush of muddy water floods the narrow, fertile valley. For the ancient Egyptians, who did not demand too much of their sacred river, the flood was fine. They built mud dikes around the fields, and caught the flood water in shallow basins. The silt settled to the bottom, keeping the soil fertile, millennium after millennium. When the water. was gone, the peasants planted their crops, often without plowing or other preparation, in the wet soil...
Into the presidency of the rich Union Pacific, third largest U.S. railroad, stepped a railroader's railroader. At 53, tall, taciturn Arthur E. Stoddard had reached the top, after a typical railroader's climb from the very bottom...
Other problems pressed upon the President. The bottom had dropped out of the Buenos Aires stock market. During the week, persistent selling wiped out as much as 36% of the values of blue-chip stocks. Frantic brokers, encouraged by the government, called a one-day strike in an attempt to stave off the collapse. Next day the market sagged worse than ever...
...Woman's Secret (RKO Radio) might better have been kept under lock & key. Producer Herman J. Mankiewicz, a veteran scripter who should have known setter, scraped this one right off the bottom of Vicki Baum's rhinestone-studded jarrel of slick fiction...