Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McKellar pounded his amendment through. But this week he faced another stiff fight in the House-and in waging his feud he had let his popularity in TVA-loving Tennessee scrape bottom. Said the Chattanooga Times: "If the whole thing could be forgotten and everyone could go on with the war, such adjustments as may be needed in the TVA system . . . can be made at a time when the Japanese and Germans are not at our throats...
...bottom: very good risk, fairly reliable, dishonest, poor budgeter...
That leaves only newly-elected Captain Bus Curwen, Johnny Richardson, and Scho Andrews on whom Bolles may count, and that means that next year Tom will have to build from the very bottom...
This time it was not U.S. bombers that made the earth tremble in Tokyo and Yokohama and set up far-glaring fires. More ancient was the enemy: Asamayama ("Mountain Without Bottom"), most fretful and dangerous of Japan's 50 active volcanoes. Seismologists had predicted that an ominously growing crust inside the cone threatened an eruption as violent as that of 1783, when 48 villages were buried deep beneath a scoriaceous lava stream. The word "catastrophe" in Axis news broadcasts indicated that what the seismologists feared may have occurred. But Allied nations were given no word of the damage...
...which slides straight down with only one more bumper to light, and the "Owen ball" which the pinster cannot control. A "New man ball," on the other hand, is one that shoots arrowlike to "Harry's gulch," the demoniacal corner which traps the ball and sends it to the bottom without hitting any bumper. "Bound hands" is the general expression of futility when a skilled pinster really cares but remains unlucky. But skill or luck, Harry's Club has always been one place, however near the Advocate, which could never be regarded as Hahvahd...