Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, the U.S. ships that now provision and arm America and her Allies will be half of all the shipping in the world. And the Navy, on seven seas, is now sailing in great force over waters that once never carried an American ship bottom. Far-sighted men count on the seagoing power as a great postwar fact; for one, Rear Admiral Jerry Land, wartime maritime boss, intends to hold on to enough U.S. merchant ships to haul at least half America's postwar trade in American bottoms...
...pocket but there was no name. If he ever had an identification tag around his neck, it would have been gone. He had no head or neck. He was and would continue to be an unknown-a nobody-at-all. We put them, one on the other, in the bottom of the boat, covered them with a canvas and started back. It was a long ride back...
...speak to-those who will open up at all-is conscious that something is radically wrong behind the scenes. Isolationism, antiSemitism, pro-appeasement are more rampant in Boston than in any city in the land. . . . The Irish are an absolute majority and run the city from top to bottom. They are predominantly anti-British, anti-Russian, anti-Semitic and anti-New Deal. Most of it goes back to Father Coughlin's paper Social Justice, which was sold every Sunday in front of the churches and subway stations till it was suppressed...
Winston Churchill was there to cast his ballot like any other M.P. He was plainly tired, but smiling and convivial. In voting line he said to surrounding backbenchers: "I'm not going about on the bottom of the cage like a wounded canary. Either they put me back on the perch-or I quit the cage altogether...
...Liberty ship Chief Washakie was 45 miles off Unalaska Island on the blustery night of last Dec. 10. At 10:22 her master was startled out of a sound sleep by a sound "like cannon fire"; the Washakie had split her sides open. Held together by her double bottom, the ship limped into Makushin Bay for temporary repairs, then headed for Dutch Harbor 48 miles away...