Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartments and raucous traffic that surround it. The 97-acre artificial lake, built in 1905, holds 800 million gallons of water to quench the thirst of nearly a million New Yorkers. Last year Republican Mayor John Lindsay's reform administration discovered that the reservoir's spalled concrete bottom had never been cleaned, and decided to scour it out. "Because of the magnitude of the job," wrote Water Commissioner James L. Marcus in last month's issue of the American City (circ. 35,664), an urban management magazine, "we awarded it to an experienced and well-equipped contractor...
...muck-bottomed reservoir could serve as a metaphor for urban malaise. Last week, in the wake of Marcus' cleanup, Jerome Park Reservoir was as spotless as the bottom of a washed soup bowl, but the Lindsay Administration was murky with implications of corruption. In the first major scandal to besmirch Lindsay's two-year-old (out of four) administration, Marcus was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of accepting a $16,000 kickback on the $835,669.39 reservoir cleaning contract...
...largest increase in social security benefits in the program's 32-year history was passed, raising monthly benefits at least 13% with proportionately larger increases at the bottom of the scale. But the bill included restrictions on state welfare programs subsidized by Washington...
...kills Hope to concede a putt, too. Most players will do so if the distance between ball and cup is "within the leather"-the length measured from the bottom of the handgrip to the club head. Not Bob; he always insists on measuring with whatever club has the longest grip...
Chatterton went into the third period of his match ahead of F&M's Bruce Leonard, 3-2. Starting in bottom position, Chatterton stood up, ducked, reached back for Leonard's left leg, pulled it up, and turned in on Leonard for a reversal and additional two-point predicament. Leonard managed to escape to neutral position, only to have Chatterton take him down and throw him into another predicament. With points for riding time, Chatterton won the decision...