Word: bottome
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During a dive, the light recedes above the conning tower. Silver gives way to green as the sub slowly sinks and finally bumps on the bottom of the bay. A kind of breathing silence enshrouds the diver. When the two electric engines are switched on, the first impact is like being caught inside a vacuum cleaner. But noise is soon forgotten as S 250 noses along just above the floor of the bay, a flat, sandy-brown miniature moonscape unrolling beneath the 3-in.-thick, 16-in.-in-diameter window in the bow. Cynically one expects to find old shoes...
People who live on wheels constitute an American subculture. In spirit they seem first cousins to the pioneers-except that the next horizon does not promise rich bottom land or gold. Still, there are rewards along the way. Some business couples, like the Crowthers from San Diego, live year round in their bus, a Newell Jewel; Dick, 38, and Mikey, 34, make a good living selling French cookware at the two dozen motor-coach rallies they attend each year. For a few, like TV Actor Darold Westbrook, 46, and his wife, Darlene, 45, a converted 1950 vintage Greyhound...
...height of the two-year Western drought, youngsters skateboarded on the dry concrete bed of the Los Angeles River. Shasta Lake receded to less than one-fourth its normal size, stranding boats on the rocky bottom. Folsom Lake, usually 260 ft. deep, was a virtual mud flat. The normally roaring Stanislaus River near Sacramento turned into a trickle. Kent reservoir serving Marin County dropped by more than a third of its usual level. Warned Richard Felch of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: "We've got a good chance of another dust bowl...
...different wrinkle to the haberdashery of power. Although they dressed like Napoleon and Josephine, they identified themselves with the descamisados, the shirtless poor who supported Perón from 1946-55. It was a classic case of gilt by association. Both Peróns came up from the bottom, and their ostentation and tantrums against the upper classes provided vicarious thrills for the masses they left behind...
Pihl said he did not know why Expository Writing -- ten years ago at the bottom of the list in popularity -- now attracts such high enrollment. Many high-school graduates planning to matriculate at Harvard next year take Expos S-17, but high-school students account for only a little more than half of Expos enrollment, Pihl said...