Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next mountain peak and dozed off. One boy landed beside a mountain ledge, lit a cigaret in the dark, flicked the burnt butt on the ground beside him. He looked down and saw the butt dropping hundreds of feet below him into what seemed a bottom less void. He didn't move another foot until daylight. Crouch hit the ground about 20 miles from a Chinese field where the flight was heading. Fitzhugh's ship landed safely in a rice paddy and the crew fired it. They could see lanterns, hear voices of Chinese peasants who were...
...rush jobs like airfields use machines in tandem which make scarifying and mixing a continuous operation. Most important is thorough tamping: rolling the surface hard is not enough; the wet mix must be compacted from the bottom. This is done with the well-named "sheep's-foot" roller (see cut), whose hundreds of small steel projections pound down into the mixture. Once tamped hard, the surface is graded smooth, then protected against scuffing by a thin bituminous top coat...
...leader of that lost cause, and from the bottom of my stricken heart I pray that a merciful God may not delay too long their redemption, that the day of salvation be not so far removed that they perish, that it be not again too late...
...Wednesday afternoon, and behind the three-hit pitching of Sophomore Brendon Reilly, who struck out 13 schoolboys, the Crimson was triumphant 4 to 1. Reilly's single in the second with the bases loaded scored the first two Varsity runs, and Andover replied with its lone tally in the bottom half of the inning, profiting on errors by Reilly and Ned Fitzgibbons...
Wales and the Repulse were at the bottom of the sea, and in Singapore's navy yard there was "a general atmosphere of a large studio rather confusedly at work upon B pictures." Official communiques were framed in guarded language ("Our troops success fully disengaged the enemy"). Though Weller believed that "plain speaking...