Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fighting Trim. Fuller's 7,300 dealers buy their stock; their profit (average take: $70 a week) depends on their own initiative. Fuller men have delivered babies, rushed stricken customers to hospitals; one saved a child from strangulation by slapping its bottom until the coin she had swallowed was coughed up. Unlike the Fuller Brush man hero in the current Red Skelton film, no Fuller dealer has ever been suspected of murder, and despite legend, his erotic adventures...
...bushels an acre, the marginal fields were yielding 16 and up. In the good fields, one farm produced 52 bushels an acre, another 75. Fearing that no one would believe him, Harry Corbet of Alfalfa County got the State Board of Agriculture to certify that his four acres of bottom land had yielded a whopping 83 bushels an acre. With 80% of the crop cut, Oklahomans joyfully boosted their estimates to 88 million bushels, hoped to do even better...
Ambitious son of a Swiss herdsman, César Ritz left home at 15 for a job emptying slops in small Paris hotels, moved on through other jobs till he became a manager. He quit to start at the bottom again in Paris' famed Restaurant Voisin, an international hangout for royalty and gourmets. There young César's instinct for the personal touch drew the attention of influential customers. During the siege of Paris in 1871, food was so scarce that the city zoo slaughtered its two elephants, of which Voisin's got the trunks. Thanks...
...years of anti-Communist indoctrination by the Nazis, but Germans also had a deep-rooted historical fear of Slavs, which was further deepened by the Red Army's excesses in looting and vandalism. This barrier of German sentiment against the Red tide had been one of the rock-bottom facts in the cold war. By last week, the fact was tottering under the astute propaganda of the Russians...
...will ever know the full story of Dunkirk-"the greatest evacuation in the history of war." Many ships went to the bottom carrying eyewitnesses, logs and records with them. Many rescuers lost "all count of times and days," and after bringing home their load of men, collapsed in sleep and never recaptured a clear remembrance of their work. But British Naval Analyst A. D. Divine (who skippered the yawl Little Ann in the great evacuation) has tried to collect every available account, and to place each one in its proper place within the great, overall story. He has succeeded...