Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swampy pit. Whenever we took cover Jap snipers popped out and bullets would whine through our entire area. About three o'clock there was an especially sharp burst, and a visiting correspondent who had landed late and could not understand why we were nervous beat us to the bottom of our foxhole. When the firing finally died away he remarked ruefully, 'Through these portals pass the fastest correspondents in the world...
Excelsior. In Chicago's new subway, first aid was administered to an old lady who had finally stopped trying to get up a downgoing escalator, had coasted to the bottom and collapsed...
Result: C. N. Publications' net for 1943's first nine months was $1,524,039 (before taxes). Only in bottom depression years has C. N. dipped into the red. And biggest profitmakers are Vogue (usually fat with flossy ads) and the Vogue patterns ("regulars" from 30? to 75?, "specials" at 75?, "couturiers...
...white-faced man stood before Congress and cried: "Vessels . . . have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and without thought of help or mercy for those on board. ... The world must be made safe for democracy." Woodrow Wilson called on Congress to declare...
...organized '"booze-buyer" gangs stripped store shelves of liquor for resale in Virginia and Maryland. Legal whiskey outlets ran out of stock in the states bordering Prohibitionist Mississippi (where OPA officials are "utterly powerless" because "theoretically there is no whiskey in Mississippi"). Even liquorish Manhattan scraped the bottom of its whiskey barrel: out-of-towners from the drought-struck sticks (plus jam-packed local bars) drained away almost all of New York City's bottled-in-bond...