Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nature's malign quirks that was once invariably fatal, then permanently crippling. The anomaly: a baby, healthy-looking at birth, may prove to have no gullet (esophagus) to carry food from mouth to stomach. Sometimes there is a short, dead-end stretch of gullet at both top and bottom, but the middle section is missing. Often there is an opening between the defective gullet and the windpipe, so that air goes into the stomach and food into the lungs. Exact incidence of these defects is unknown: the best estimate is once in every 5,000 births...
Vice Admiral Charles Randall Brown, 58, commander of the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet. To Alabaman "Cat" Brown, bossing this 418,000-ton, 76-ship armada is "the best job in the whole Navy." An unruly plebe at Annapolis, he logged 300 demerits, squeezed out near the bottom of his class ('21). The exuberant Brown spirit chafed at a rash of peacetime desk jobs, boiled over in 1943. "I've got a carrier [the Kalinin Bay], and I'd like a job of work," he told Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Snapped Spruance...
...Walter O'Malley, Los Angeles is a sort of Garden of Eden and Black Hole of Calcutta rolled into one. While the turnstiles of mammoth Memorial Coliseum click toward a smashing major-league attendance record, his Dodgers languish at the bottom of the league and his plans for a new baseball home in Chavez Ravine run into snags from all quarters. The voters last month approved the city's plan to make over to the Dodgers 169 acres of city-owned land in the Ravine so the Dodgers could build a stadium and parking lot there. But last...
After months of recession, U.S. business had finally hit bottom and started to climb once more. Leading indicators edged upward, farmers were entering a new period of prosperity, the all-important U.S. consumer was beginning to regain his appetite (see below). As business gathered new momentum, the events in Lebanon and Iraq would surely introduce a new influence. The expected effect: an additional nudge forward...
Flea Point Landing. In Bell Gardens, Calif., Lester Grinstead leaped from a, bridge, landed 40 ft. below in one inch of water flowing over the concrete bottom of the Los Angeles River, got up, shook himself, walked off uninjured...