Word: bottomlessly
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...idea of Bruce's real potential," says Coach Foot, who guides his protege during a race with hand signals. "He's like a well-he doesn't seem to have any bottom." And if he develops at a reasonable rate as he grows older and stronger, bottomless Bruce Kidd is quite likely to become one of the great distance men in track history...
Sneeze in the Dark. His daily life provides plenty of material-like the story about the time his dog sled plunged through a hole in the Yukon ice. "It was bottomless," he recalls as he waves his elbows to show how he tried again and again to crawl out on the ice, only to have another piece break off and dunk him. "We broke through 73 feet that way. Twice I gave up. But life is sweet." Jesuit Llorente has served in various Alaskan missions, including three years north of the Arctic Circle. But his most arduous work began...
...Bowles gets general approval despite the fact that over a period of 20 years, Bowles has plowed through a long series of jobs that generally require the soft, sure touch of tact. What he lacked in the diplomat's pouch of tact, he made up for with a bottomless bag of ideas, a gift of gab and unswerving earnestness for his causes...
...Harvard and Exeter." Though likable and above average as an individual, he "didn't look much like a poet, an intellectual, an artist, or a Christian, each of which he was." Agee's own view was darker. He saw himself and Evans as "two angry, futile and bottomless intelligences in the service of an anger and of a love and of an undiscernible truth...
...rich new shade across the white colonial mansions and the square, peaked-roofed clapboard houses. In fresh-minted subdivisions, sycamore striplings strained at their stakes to promise token cover for the bare houses of glass, steel, stone and shingle that have sprouted (19 million since 1940) as from a bottomless nest of Chinese boxes. School buses headed toward the season's last mile; power mowers and outboard motors pulsed the season's first promise. Fragrance of honeysuckle and roses overlay the smell of charcoal and seared beef. The thud of baseball against mitt, the abrasive grind of roller...