Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take some of the sting out of the firings, Gulf has hired a Manhattan firm, Thine., which specializes in helping axed employees find jobs. Still, morale among many of the remaining 59,000 employees is scraping bottom, and quite a few are nervously looking for other jobs...
...eligible for work-study jobs, while men with a parental contribution (P.C.) level of up to $750 were eligible. The reallocation of funds from the graduate schools enabled Harvard to raise the work-study eligibility even higher, to a P.C. level of $2000, while Radcliffe's remained at rock-bottom level...
...Houses were listed in order of preference to one where only the top three choices are considered. Both methods of selection have made use of the principle of "maximization of first choice." The 12-choice system was frowned upon by a large number of freshmen who received their bottom choices, because most thought there would be little chance of receiving anything below choice number eight. In addition, the 12-choice system seemed to promote speculation for choices. Students thought there was a vast difference in one's chances of being assigned to choice one, and those of being placed...
...whistling way south toward summer, is a varied, often startlingly beautiful landscape of feathery woods and forests, roses and rhododendrons, pastures and cornfields, laced with urgent streams and dreaming lakes. The earth turns from New Jersey silt to Maryland sand, from Georgia red clay to Alabama's black bottom. Grand estates and hardscrabble farms rush by, punctuated by hamlets as dour as a Grant Wood visage. The voyager is voyeur, peering into the discrete life of the land and its inhabitants...
...result, the glacier's front end could shrink back off the shoal into the deeper water upstream. Its new face, extending to the bottom of the fjord, would then be three or more times the height of the old, and quite unstable. Calving could accelerate five to 50 times its current rate. As much as a cubic mile of ice might be dumped into the bay each year for the next 30 to 50 years, until the glacier retreats to a new and stable foothold...