Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...climax Maryland's acidulous Millard F. Tydings stood up. The war was going badly; Senators were mad at each other and at the country; Tydings was sick of the whole business. Out came all his long-pent bitterness. The Government was "an overgrown monstrosity from top to bottom"; strikes should be stopped; Wendell Willkie should get a war job; Dean Landis was the wrong man to head the Office of Civilian Defense; the war debt would be terrific; aid should be sent to General MacArthur; perhaps MacArthur should have been in Singapore in the first place...
...ship been allowed to capsize? The fire had been doused in some six hours. When she showed signs of overturning, she might have been scuttled (to settle securely in the mud, only eight or ten feet below her bottom), or tanks on her starboard side might have been correctly flooded to counteract the weight of the water on her portside. One attempt at flooding was made, but it was unsuccessful...
...hawsers like rubber bands. Trying to keep her from capsizing, the Navy ordered holes cut in an empty water tank on the starboard side, to pump in water for balance. But early next morning, as the tide came in and lifted her heavy stern from the shallow river bottom, the Lafayette toppled, rolled over ignominiously on her side...
...active alliance. Moving on diplomatic tiptoe, the State Department explored the apparent change in the weather, asked Vichy whether rumors of aid to Rommel were true. Though Vichy's answer was not released to the press, the State Department called it "definitely unsatisfactory." It looked as though the bottom had dropped out of the barometer and collaborating Vichy would soon be swallowed by the Axis...
Last week the rock rolled back to the bottom of the hill. As their share in the Victory Program, the War Production Board asked the toolmakers for $166,000,000 worth per month...