Word: bottomlessly
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...United Nations; but mercy born of a ruthless force beyond anything in human chronicle. The race had been won, the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures instead of dead matter created a bottomless wound in the living conscience of the race. The rational mind had won the most Promethean of its conquests over nature, and had put into the hands of common man the fire and force of the sun itself...
...Bottomless Hole. John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers felt a vested interest in keeping R.M.F. alive. Every year, Lewmurken Inc. (the corporation that handles U.M.W.'s investment funds) sank more money into R.M.F. until, by 1941, the corporation had assumed all of Miss Roche's debt of $800.000, had virtual control of the company through its 23% bond holdings...
...Columbia University, students flocked to savor "Uncle Charlie's" bottomless knowledge and quinine wit. In 1913, after months of delving in the dust-choked records of the U.S. Treasury Department, he published An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, suggesting that the Founding Fathers belonged to a group influenced as much by material self-interest as by love of liberty. Conservatives exploded...
...storms of ice-cold rain and hail. Their feet burn and smart horribly from endless marching through mud. Their stomachs growl because food arrives irregularly and often must be dropped from airplanes. Even ammunition is often scarce when the supply trains cannot proceed because of enemy activity or bottomless mud on the roads...
Accordingly, Dr. Benes' despair over the French betrayal at Munich was bottomless. What Jan Masaryk, at home in the Anglo-Saxon world, rightly thought a mistake, French-oriented Dr. Benes considered a crime. He was shocked to the roots of his being. It will take much, perhaps more than the West ever can offer, to satisfy Dr. Benes that the Czechs can again rely on Western guarantees...