Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon the whole building is in use, and by students. Starting at the bottom like an Alger here, the crevices between the pipes in the basement see service as a shooting gallery for the Mill Sci pistol team...
...early-morning haze. In the Solomons that terrible night in October, she had slugged it out with six Jap warships, had taken everything they threw at her, had lost 107 of her men and all of her beauty-but every one of the Jap ships is now at the bottom...
Vichyite. Pierre Laval's services to Germany have long been obvious, even candid. Marshal Pétain may even imagine that, at bottom, he has been opposed to Adolf Hitler...
...best of reasons for keeping Spain out of the war. If either the Axis or the Allies moved into Spain, the lid would blow off. It is not clear who would then come out on top, but it seems highly probable that Dictator Franco would land on his bottom...
Snafu is when the supply ship arrives and the stuff on the bottom should have been on top. Snafu is when radio receiving sets arrive at a jungle camp without batteries. Snafu is when a regiment unloads its trucks overseas and finds most of them so worn that they are ready to fall apart. Snafu is when the yellow-fever vaccine gives everybody jaundice; when the planes cannot fly because spare parts ordered four months ago never show up; when headquarters orders red crosses painted on the hospital just after it has been meticulously camouflaged. Snafu is when a Seattle...