Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference, foreshadowed the patterns of the world organization. A 14-nation executive committee included the Big Three, France and China, lesser members tied more or less to the U.S. (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), Russia (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), and Britain (Australia, Canada. New Zealand). Everyone saw that on the rock-bottom security issues of the future, virtually every small power would be tied to one of the Big Three. But on minor and intermediate issues, the smaller powers kept their independence...
...asked him whether he did not find that there was something anomalous in the position of an artist, however illustrious, whose work was, after all, under stood by relatively few, being publicly identified with a popular party, and whether revolutionary art, such as his, was not at bottom even resented by the revolutionary masses." Life & Logic. " 'There is just such a want of accord between the two revolutionary forces,' he conceded. 'But life isn't a very logical business, is it? As for me, I have to act as I feel, both as an artist...
...sack draped over bony shoulders. The walls were lined with bunks built right up to the ceiling. The 1,500 slept four, six or eight or any number to a bunk. When it was really crowded, men slept on top of each other and the ones on the bottom, like as not, were dead of suffocation in the morning...
...place names are directly or indirectly Sir Walter's. "Poetic" names built around glen, dale, vale, hurst, mere and burn broke out like a rash in the late 1800s; soon they enclosed many cities "like a ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove and Scarsdale] in his life, he was nevertheless very likely to end up finally in [a cemetery ] named Oakmont or Woodland." And where Sir Walter failed, estate agents of the boom 1920s often...
...middle of last week, the New York stock market seemed to be over its V-E day jitters. The slump, which began March 9 when U.S. troops jumped the Rhine, seemed to have hit bottom. For six days, stocks had climbed slowly. Then came the news of the President's death...