Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crooked Cross. This, at the bottom, is a war of the spirit. Hitler has tried to kill this spirit and substitute for it some ersatz thing, something which is really its negation. He has trampled underfoot the great faith which has nourished the West. He has trampled on the Cross and substituted for it a crooked cross-a fit symbol for the new devil worship which he has tried to impose on his country and the world...
This summer Thurber announced delightedly that he could read again. With a telescopic spectacle lens, thick as a bottle bottom, he had managed painfully to scan a short sentence in a novel...
...protect very young children from the effects of poison gas until they could be removed from the gas area." His emergency solution was to set the women stitching together sacks which, when impregnated with gas-resistant chemicals, could be drawn over infants' heads and tied tightly at the bottom. But how would a child like to have his head thrust into a sack...
...years. He made her sell her jewels, negligees, robes, put her in a cheap apartment, would not buy enough fuel to heat it. Juliette stayed in bed to keep warm. She said to Hugo: "If you seek warmth in this room you will have to seek it at the bottom of my heart...
...five were blown to the bottom by submarines which also probably sank a cargo ship and damaged two tankers in continuing thrusts against Japan's far-flung supply lines...