Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came up, as consciousness and pain returned, he tried to rise. He saw that he was trapped. He was lying on his back at the bottom of a rocky California canyon, about 40 miles from Oakland. His wrecked automobile was on its side beside him and his right hand and wrist were pinned underneath the car's front fender...
...Silk Guild plan to spend nearly $1,000,000 in an advertising campaign intended to regain silk's lost prestige with American women. This should help. But drastically lowered prices, barred until the end of the year, may be the only way to move the stockpile. Then the bottom may drop out of the retail price of silk goods...
...basement attack on the Statler's powder rooms. They had somehow swept 25 non-Kunkel ladies along into the dining rooms with them, thereby complicating the seating arrangements and causing some bad tempers. But when Congressman Kunkel reappeared they immediately and happily sang, to the tune of Bell Bottom Trousers...
...stuffed with presents, kept his audience waiting for long minutes before he loosened the drawstrings and displayed his prize package: a new schedule of income-tax rates under which "the average amount of tax will be reduced by about 29%. . . . The reduction . . . is as much as 54% in the bottom bracket, but is limited to about 6% or 7% in the top brackets." Half of the relief will apply on 1947 incomes, since reductions go into effect on July...
...good man has through a "midwife" approach to coaching. This requires not scorn, or a drive-drive-drive psychology, but rather an incalculable patience and humor with green men who shoot their seat-slide forward too soon, fail to use leg-drive, or put a foot through the bottom of the shell. He will tell a crew whimsically, "You had two speeds today--dead slow, and stop." And then go on, "You have to keep limber in the hips--it's like sitting on a rolling...