Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...criticized in particularly strong terms ventilation on the floor, calling it "totally inadequate." A check made after most of the 173 men sleeping on the floor last night had retired, disclosed that only four windows in the room were open, and those one foot each at the bottom...
Embracing all other crises was the crisis of the U.S. policy of containing Communism. Last week, Pundit Walter Lippmann asked the disturbing question whether such a policy was feasible at all (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). For at the bottom of almost every phase of crisis was the Soviet Union. From the heartland of Eurasia she irradiated the world along a vast circumference with waves of disruptive power...
...Government was jubilant. If the Edge Hill vote meant anything, it meant that the socialists could still count on the workers to give the Labor Party a loyal working-class vote regardless of conditions. Moreover, Prime Minister Attlee, rightly or wrongly, believed that the Labor Government had hit the bottom of the chute, and that its standing with the voters, since it could scarcely go lower, must go up. Noting that Labor has not lost any seat in by-elections since 1945, London's Daily Herald burbled: "It is more than 70 years since a Government has enjoyed such...
...Matter of Education. "The refusal to believe it is now declining," says Father Lassalle. "Japanese education is responsible for the tragedy. It is not at the bottom bad will, or even pride, but narrow-mindedness and naivete. That is the mistake of the Japanese people. Once they understand what is going on in the world at large they' are wonderful people, but they were not educated to pay attention to any events outside their own country. . . . They only learned about their own island, and they carry their island with them...
...remember the bottom dropped out, and then dropped out again, twice. It was the weather. It wasn't the pilot's fault and it wasn't the airplane's fault. I came to twelve or 15 times, I just don't remember. I knew where I was and what had happened, but I was kept so busy trying to keep the flies off and trying to move the body from me, and then I'd go back to sleep...