Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talk of sea-bottom exploration, aquaculture (underwater agriculture) and even water-breathing, gilled humans used to be dismissed as mere rapture of the deeps. But no longer. By extending his technology from the present 400-ft. levels to 5,000 ft., man may soon gain direct access to the continental shelves and slopes. Potential result: conquest of another 10% of the earth's surface-an area roughly equal to that of the moon...
...peak, the five-and-a-quarter hour teach-in almost filled the bottom level of Lowell Lec, but by 11:30 p.m. there were perhaps thirty people left.Three faces of WILLIAM J. LEDERER, who appeared briefly to answer a question at the Teach-in at Lowell Lecture Hall...
Examples: "Are your staff all runaways from the asylum?" "I asked for the bill, not the National Budget." "Was this omelette made with pterodactyl eggs?" "This tip is twice as much as you deserve." "Get your slimy hands off my bottom...
...long ago, Peru seemed near the edge of economic disaster: plunging world prices had pulled the bottom out of the country's cotton and sugar markets, and a huge budget deficit threatened runaway inflation. Today things are different; in a remarkable reversal of form, Peru is prospering at a pace that few other countries on the continent can match...
Barth has produced a black Bible that proceeds not to revelation but to further mystification. At bottom, he seems to be saying that even the bestial can be beautiful if the beholder believes it to be so. He faults man's failure to distinguish pragmatically between truth and belief. And, as in his earlier writings, he bleakly seems to say that anything can be true if it is in the nature of the believer to believe...