Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following the dinner, Mumford answered questions from the floor and said that planning cannot be imposed from above nor cannot it be left entirely up to non-professional politicians. "This work takes the cooperation of thousands of people and we must begin at the bottom by educating people to the needs and problems of their communities," he stated...
...last year Bridges was ready to demand a contract for the sugar workers, who had always been at or near the bottom of the economic pile. Imported by the thousands as indentured laborers from China, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, they had once lived in virtual peonage...
This conscious effort to please the bottom level of U.S. audience intelligence is made with assurance and .great technical competence. The result is so relaxing to eye, ear and brain that millions of moviegoers will not know that they are suffering a carefully studied insult...
...however excellent the production and performance, the essence of great dramatic poetry is verbal, and the bottom of this play's new success was that Andre Gide had kept the greatness of great words in a new language. Samples: ¶ O that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! (Chair trap massive, Oh! Si tu pouvais fondre, T'evaporer, te resoudre en rosee...
...chicken yard is as rigid as at any Army post. Each hen has a fixed position in the "pecking order": the No. i hen may peck all other hens, be pecked by none. No. 2 pecks all except No. i, is pecked only by her. The hen at the bottom of the social order, pecked by all, pecks none. Roosters too have a pecking order, but each rooster may peck and attempt to mate with all the hens...