Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strong Bottom...
When the Mary E. O'Hara came to rest on the bottom, twelve feet of her mainmast, five feet of her foremast stuck out above the waves. There on slippery, ice-covered halyards clung more than a dozen of her crew. Some of them were dressed only in the underwear in which they had slept. It was about 3:30 of a January morning...
...Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis it looked as if the London-Washington Axis were dealing from the bottom of the deck. An angry cry went up. The Italian radio sneered that President Roosevelt had "lowered himself" by going to meet an Ambassador. In Popolo d'ltalia Journal ist Luigi Barzini assured his countrymen that "in the crucial period of the war-not too remote-Great Britain will have received only a few thousand planes" from...
...generation which Fitzgerald celebrated managed to prolong its mental childhood to the age of 21. Really violent adolescence set in at 25. By 30 the physical survivors flickered into a relatively tranquil senescence. But they had been deeply seared by a blinding flash of revelation that life is at bottom brutal, and most of them clung to their cushioning cynicism years after the psychic shock had passed. They had to. Cynicism was the lost generation's only morale...
Director Mack had got cooperation that was worthwhile. Nash-Kelvinator shaved the price on 25,000 electric refrigerators to $52 each (retail price $105). A medicine cabinetmaker knocked down his wholesale price from $5 to $2. Another Midwestern manufacturer, after quoting rock bottom on about 30,000 bath tubs, confided: "But you can save $2 a tub if you buy the fittings from the same people we buy them from." So Mack bought "stripped" tubs, got fittings for them from the cheaper source. Savings: almost $60,000 on tubs alone. Said Director Mack, pleased as Punch...