Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard, in losing its third game in four league starts, dropped from a tie for fourth place to the next to the bottom rung on the Eastern Intercollegiate League ladder, while the victors scrambled from last place to a tie for third...
Isaac, Adam's second son, was the spark plug. He started the tradition that every Gimbel should start at the bottom of the retail ladder, work up. Practically every male Gimbel since has done so, though not all stuck...
Typical of their desperate opportunism were the landings they made below British lines on the west coast-in waters which ought to have been British right to the bottom. When they took Penang intact, they gathered all the barges, junks, launches, yachts and sampans in sight and set off, like a Japanese print of a Strength Through Joy outing, down the coast. At the mouth of the Perak, near Telok Anson, they sent a large launch as a kind of decoy into the estuary. A British patrol boat approached to investigate. The Japanese strung a line of laundry...
...Yorkers, whom Mr. LaGuardia had been advising to keep calm & cool, decided that it was time Butch took some of his own advice. His friendliest critics, the Manhattan press went to work swatting the Mayor's bottom, a new experience for New York's little cock-of-the-walk. Smacked the Herald Tribune: "The work of the Office of Civilian Defense cannot, in fairness to the nation, be left in such hands." Smacked the Mirror: "The Mayor . . . frenziedly advising people to 'be calm,' draws more raucous laughs than Abbott and Costello." Smacked the World-Telegram...
...medical profession ... [is] closer to scraping the bottom of the bucket . . . than any other occupation, trade or profession." So warned Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association...