Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.S. Kearny, a slim, 1,630-ton beauty with a battle speed of around 40 knots. Besides modern armament (including ten torpedo tubes, five 5-inch guns), the Kearny has the maximum in destroyer protection. Highly compartmented so that damage can be localized, she also has a stout double bottom to cut down torpedo damage to her inner skin...
Born with a flair for showmanship as conspicuous as his red hair, he chases a football like a beagle after a rabbit, always seems to dive to the bottom of the pile to get it. He believes a referee's job calls for neither a blind man nor a hawkshaw, prefers to keep the show going rather than call every infraction of football's 65 pages of rules...
...When a material gets as scarce as copper," SPAB Director Donald Nelson told the Truman Committee last week, "priorities are no longer any good. It has to be straight allocation . . . both from the top and from the bottom...
...worms that munched on mulberry leaves he brought from a nearby yard. He tinkered with carpenter's tools. He kept two dogs, against the school rules, and walked them at night with his friend, the town detective. Once he manufactured a time bomb to blow out a well bottom which was supposed to lead to an underground passage. When he peered down the well to see why the bomb didn't go off, it did, and young Churchill's face was badly scorched. In his last school year he won the Public Schools Fencing Competition at Aldershot...
...certain that the ax will swing most heavily on National Guard and Reserve officers, who were picked with less care, trained less intensively than young regulars. Best bet is that around 30% of the Army's citizen-officers will be sent home, to be replaced from the bottom by R.O.T.C. graduates and new second lieutenants from the Army's officers' schools...