Word: bottomlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's visit to Saigon, Javits rose on the floor of the Senate to declare that "the President would and should have the support of the overwhelming majority of the American people if he decides to resume the limited bombing." Challenging Mansfield's recent jeremiad foreseeing a "bottomless Asian land war," Javits argued that "militarily, the situation is at least encouraging"; that "the impact of our buildup is just beginning to be felt," and that most South Vietnamese now believe, as they plainly did not a year ago, that the Viet Cong will be defeated-possibly...
...motivations. Before World War II, our image was one of rugged independence, of unlimited opportunity for the diligent. We therefore attracted people with these characteristics. Today we are known as the most excellent of lands to be incapacitated or poor in. The concept ot America as a land of bottomless public treasuries spewing money into the pockets of all who can muster enough energy to jet over attracts only those who wish to exploit our misguided generosity...
...girls also submitted, amiably enough, to an exercise of maternity that was rather on the strenuous side. "Mother is a bottomless pit," says Patsy, now Mrs. Richard Blake, wife of a lawyer practicing in Los Angeles. "She will kill you with love. As I was growing up, I didn't want to be understood. My biggest problem was knowing when and how to confide in Mother...
...read only as a superbly vivid chronicle of its last years, from just before World War I, when dwarfs still sold whips for naughty children in the streets, to the outbreak of World War II, when its destroyed people stared into its shattered ruins as if into Abaddon, the bottomless pit of hell...
...beyond the range of its missiles or its reconnaissance planes. And yet in a nuclear age, the weapons are there mostly in order not to be used, except in crucial self-defense. The most immediate tool of U.S. policy around the world remains money-money springing from apparently bottomless prosperity, money which, in its ultimate use, the U.S. cannot really control...