Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all this I agree, except that I would place Franklin Roosevelt in the cellar with Grant and Harding. . . . Grant was a great soldier, even if he was a bad President; Harding achieved success as an editor, starting at the bottom in American tradition. F.D.R. had no personal achievement of any kind, being born with a silver spoon in his mouth...
...enemy had at least four times this strength. But on the night of Nov. 12-13, he sent a boy-sized task force to do a man's job; two nights later he repeated the error. In those engagements, the ancient battleships Hiei and Kirisima plunged into Iron-Bottom...
...Stahlmen tied things up in the third with most of the action starring Bucek. After lacing a clean single to left, he pilfered second and came around home after an infield out and a fielder's choice. The Crusaders went ahead again in the bottom half of the same frame. Ray Borowicz got on when he forced John Whalen at second. He then stole second and Devlin followed with a bingle into center; Borowicz romped home when Carlton fumbled the ball...
Relations among the Allies are on three levels. Between the Americans and the Russians they are excellent on the top level, poor on the middle level, good on the bottom level. Between the British and Russians they are not quite as good on any level. Reason: the British are more set in their ways. Top-level Americans and Russians have made a deliberate effort to know each other as men, which the British are more slow to do. For instance, when Brigadier W. R. N. Hinde, British Military Governor, wants to see the Russian Military Governor, General Nikolai Baranov...
...Bottom. Bill Jeffers was a product of this brawling frontier. His father, William, came over from Ireland's County Mayo in 1868 and, after laying his share of track, settled down to work as laborer for the U.P. in North Platte, Neb. There Bill Jeffers was born, in a tiny clapboard house that was usually crowded with railroad men, always swirled with argument (when all other topics were exhausted, they argued on ways & means of freeing Ireland). It was inevitable that Bill Jeffers should grow up to be 1) belligerent, 2) a railroad...