Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first out of the hatch, on his belly. On the LM's "porch," he will pull a ring that opens a storage area and exposes a mounted TV camera, which will relay to audiences on earth a view of his awkward progress down the LM's ladder. At the bottom, Armstrong will place his right foot in the bowl-shaped footpad and?by 2:22 a.m. Monday, if he is on schedule?plant his left foot firmly on lunar soil...
...based on fixed exchange rates, under which currencies are valued in relation to the dollar and may range up or down by no more than 1% in foreign-exchange trading. Under the simplest form of crawling peg, if a currency were to sell for some months at the bottom of its 1% range, then its official value would automatically move down. On the other hand, if heavy demand were to make a currency sell persistently at the top of its range, its official value would be automatically raised...
...better third-level carriers, including some of the scheduled services that the FAA calls "commuter air carriers," demand airline-style experience of their pilots-but most do not. At the bottom are the unscheduled "air taxis," many of which are Mom and Pop outfits that hire out for various chores and use smaller and less well-equipped planes than the commuters...
SPECTRUM (NET. 8-8:30 p.m.)* "Flying at the Bottom of the Sea" is a journey to the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in Alvin, the Navy's minisub designed for deep-sea probes...
...launched into a lusty, ear-piercing "whooo," then followed with a foghorn of a tune that sailed clear into the next county. That was genuine east North Carolina country hollerin'. As Dewey told the crowd, "I been hollerin' since my mammy slapped me on the bottom the day I was born...