Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white beach. Communist shells were pounding over. We ran for it, and came smack up against barbed wire. Ducking into a bunker, we watched the second landing barge glide by like a sea monster. The third landing craft, carrying a group of U.S. military assistance advisory personnel, tore its bottom on an underwater barricade, and the U.S. officers, their gear lost, slogged ashore through neck-deep water...
...poor time because the market was at the top of a speculative binge that had boosted the price of U.S. bonds (TIME, June 30). Many, gambling on a continued rise, bought the new bonds with nothing down. But in June it also became plain that the recession had hit bottom and the FRB might have to tighten credit. Bond buyers saw the promise of higher interest ahead and dumped their holdings. The speculative bubble burst. As prices fell, the yields reached as high as 3! on Government bonds. The Government bond market turned so weak that when the Treasury floated...
...fans, it hardly mattered that the 5-2 victory left their team at the bottom of the National League. Few bothered to grouse that the pitching was still spotty, the fielding fumble-thumbed, the base running lead-footed. In their misery the Cub fans this season have something to cheer about: Ernie Banks, the hardest slugging shortstop in the business, is having his greatest year...
...Trieste help? It may improve sonar gear by showing how to cut through the ocean's sound-distorting layers of temperature and noisy marine life. Already it has found life right at the bottom. Another finding: layers of different temperature form "tunnels" that carry sound waves for thousands of miles. In one, an exploding 4-lb. charge of dynamite can be heard from San Diego to Hawaii...
...others and are more expensive. But a curious discovery is that more energy may be released when a sphere is collapsed under water than when it is blown outward against pressure. To measure this, Navy scientists once sent a 6-in.-diameter hollow ball 3,500 ft. to the bottom. Collapsed by a spring trigger when it hit, it exploded with as much force as a "sizable" charge...