Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hill. I thought of my ten. I wondered how they would look after that roller passed over them-and I knew then I wasn't going to jump. I couldn't see how I was going to get through that mess of cars and children at the bottom of the hill. ... I started praying. ... I didn't think much more but just prayed." The roller clanked downhill at 60 miles an hour. Somehow the stalled, tangled traffic jerked apart at the last split second; the juggernaut whistled through by a hair, pounded on down the street...
Last week Sir Archibald Wavell arrived at the scene of action, looked at the maps of relative positions, ordered a column to undertake a daring advance along a brush-covered gorge bottom. This the column accomplished, surprising the Italians into a fear of being surrounded...
...them but the stars by night and the sun by day. . . . And so our safari is forced to rest-hoping to regain their strength with generous helpings of wart-hog stew." When a group of savages are arguing in their native tongue, very liberal English translations appear at the bottom of the screen. When Crosby tries to argue Hope into wrestling the octopus, he explains : "I'm trying to make you famous-people will write books about you." Cracks Hope: "Well, I know three words that won't be in 'em-'ripe old age.' " Bing...
...Home & Abroad. Both Stalin and Hitler use food to destroy internal opposition, reward accomplishment, punish failure, establish the class distinctions of their "new orders." In Germany the "warrior caste" of the armed forces gets the fattest ration cards, skilled and essential workmen the next. Down at the bottom come prisoners, the insane, the Jews. Ration cards giving the owner right to more food are used to give workmen incentives to seek promotion, to increase their output. Supplies are suddenly cut down (regardless of the amount stored) to scare the population into believing the situation serious, or extra rations are suddenly...
...acre of ground to a depth of 100 ft. in a single day. The water level in Cripple Creek's long-flooded mines dropped fast. By last week the 2,600-foot-deep Ajax mine (formerly workable only with constant pumping) was dry all the way to the bottom. With the water draining from the mines, an estimated $13,000,000 in gold deposits was being uncovered and Cripple Creek was ready for another boom...