Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then the bottom began to drop out of cotton...
Such men say openly now that Washington working morale is disintegrating, that a shake-up must come soon, that this is one thing that cannot be postponed until after elections. Some believe that vast reorganizations from top to bottom must be undertaken, that many a Washington bigwig must be fired from many a big job before the tide of battle can be turned...
...timid, heartless, ambitious mass of whom, in Silone's opinion, life is chiefly made. The other is the world of God: the only world in which fearlessness and friendship are possible, and almost nothing else is. In Silone's cosmography there is also a limbo, the sea-bottom world of the immemorially poor, "stultified by hard labor, underfed, suspicious, cowardly, astute, patient, good or bad according to which way the wind might blow." In a description like an Italian primitive, Silone fixes a segment of this limbo in a tableau on the village square. Peasants crowd their patient...
Lowell retains its long lead over the other Houses in the amount pledged and collected last week, with total sales there amounting to $129 and pledges to $85. Winthrop rose from near the bottom in the middle of last week to vie with Adams and Leverett for second place in the amount pledged, and in the total amount sold for the week Winthrop was about $10 ahead...
Scorning all landlubbers who look upon racing as sitting in a puddle in the bottom of a boat, the yachtsmen stoutly maintain that holding a mainsheet is just as much work as pulling...