Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tobacco farm in Pittsylvania County in southern Virginia. His landlord was Oscar Davis, a white tenant farmer who, no matter how hard he worked and sang hymns in the Methodist church, never got out of debt. Black and white, Waller and Davis were two poor, desperate men at the bottom of the South's economic heap. When the Government curtailed Davis' tobacco allotment, Davis cut Waller's acreage and denied the poverty-stricken Negro his due: one-quarter share of the threshed wheat. The Waller family-Annie, his aunt, Mollie, his wife-faced a winter of starvation...
...Ship movements (including last movements to the bottom) are non-reportable except by "appropriate" authority of the Navy-neutral ships included. Whatever information this particular censorship withholds from the enemy, it also withholds from the U.S. public knowledge of the full seriousness of the U-boat campaign...
...would be there waiting for him, and his whistle became almost a chortle as he thought of the ready bed and the tidy bureau drawers waiting in his House room. Visions of sweating Freshmen rummaging through trunks to find that dress shirt that just had to go at the bottom of the first drawer filled his mind, and even the heat could not melt his core of superciliousness when he stalked past the bewildered Freshman about to sign his fifth pressing contract under pressure from three burly salesmen. The last salesman to put his foot in Vag's door...
...keep restless stomachs constantly occupied, Dr. Winkelstein rigs up a quart-sized can high over each patient's bed, fills it with lukewarm milk to which a level teaspoon of soda has been added. One end of a long, latex tube attached to the bottom of the can is swallowed by the patient. The tube, which is very soft, and scarcely larger than macaroni, is easy to swallow, does not keep the patient from sleeping, can even be used in the day time while he sits in a chair. The milk drips into his stomach constantly, its flow controlled...
...this year, R.K.O.'s consolidated net earnings were only $439,000 v. $643,000 last year. For a while there was only one picture in production—and a huge operation like R.K.O. needs much more than that to stay in the black. In fact, R.K.O. is scraping the bottom of the barrel again, and Mr. Odium, who got it out of receivership in 1939 was out looking for a $3,000,000 working-capital loan (which he will probably get from New York City's Manufacturers Trust Co.—provided he guarantees...