Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public has needed no expertise to read about DDT, thalidomide and cyclamates, nor to learn that the DES that seemed a nifty preventive of miscarriage in the 1950s was being linked to cancer a generation later. The citizen's problem, at bottom, is how to assess the things that so often come forth in the beguiling guise of blessings. What to believe? Whom to trust? This is a recipe for public frustration...
...ordinarily chop off its fanged foot-wide head before they display the fish in order not to frighten customers. Taping a cooking session for the new season, Child hauled the fish up by its tail, showed the camera its "skin that moves around" and praised its "marvelous teeth-top, bottom and middle." "It is firm, lean and gelatinous," she insisted, "and very good in bouillabaisse." When it's mixed with lobster, "the lobster flavor penetrates the monkfish, and you think you're eating only lobster." Besides, Child pointed out, in these days of ballooning prices, monkfish...
...Tigers have beaten most of the best teams in the East. During their southern trip they breezed past Miami and ACC teams Duke and North Carolina. Navy gave the Tigers their biggest scare, taking the bottom four singles matches, but Princeton swept the doubles to come...
...performer whose appeal was strong but limited. It marked the end of her raw scream-and-simmer tactics at the microphone too, because smooth, technosyncratic, polished albums mean similar concerts. The days when you could see Patti Smith wail out with Lenny Kaye at The Rat or The Bottom Line are gone. She was known to spit at her audiences, to jump on tables and kick drinks into the abyss. Patti Smith is now banned from The Bottom Line...
With no score in the bottom of the sixth (doubleheader games are only seven innings long), Dartmouth sparred Harvard starter Larry Brown for three two-out runs on four consecutive hits. "I had been going almost too smooth up to that point. I got the first two men and then I had the next guy (Dartmouth DH Mike "Bull' Durham) 3-and-2 before I got my slider up and he hit it. It was kind of a shot put and after that I lost my concentration," Brown said afterwards...