Word: bottomlessly
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...management continues to bestow extras on its own (as it often has), fringes may replace wage boosts: "Both labor and management need to reconsider . .. The American appetite for more security against the risks of life, coupled with the desire for more time off with pay, is virtually a bottomless pit into which the whole economy could fall-at the expense of the wage structure which in the last analysis constitutes the real base of our national standard of living...
...tried his hand at dairy farming in the years following the war. Commenting on this venture, he laments, "After a year, the cows began to die more and more rapidly; in fact, all the livestock was sick. The barn floor began to crumble, and the whole thing became a bottomless pit which nothing could fill." He now compromises with a small cabin in the New Hampshire woods. And a few times a year he is lured to a local movie, but returns each time reassured that he can do without the film industry...
...convicted of a similar offense in Illinois in 1941 (which the state Supreme Court reversed), and later got in trouble in Mississippi over his tung-nut dealings. The SEC tracked down 600 small investors who had poured between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 into Vasen's bottomless well...
...capitals from Oslo to Singapore, Russian envoys, suddenly polite, have been passing out caviar and cognac, lunching Western newsmen, offering to provide Soviet orchestras for their hosts' enlightenment. Smart-suited Soviet buyers are shopping everywhere, touting a bottomless ^market (of 660 million Russians and Chinese) for the surplus commodities of Western farms and factories. The Communists want cotton, wool, fats, steel and rubber-and the payment they offer is attractive: gold, timber, even strategic materials...
...dynamo of salvation and yet destruction to those who contact me inharmoniously . . . I have cursed them down to the bottomless pit on earth . . . I curse them without mercy. I curse them without pity. I curse without compassion or any sympatheticness . . . Aren't you glad...