Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artful Dodger When White House jester George Allen saw an Eisenhower-for-President story in the papers, he lost no time writing his good friend Ike a little note: "How does it feel to be a presidential candidate?" Ike merely scrawled across the bottom of Allen's note: "Baloney! . . . . I furiously object to the word 'candidate.' I ain't and won't be." That was in 1943, Ike was in England, and D-day was still eight months away...
...Year opened, the survival of Western democracy rested, at bottom, on the case the U.S. would make for it; on a strong, stable and friendly America depended the stability of the Western world. This week, as the U.S. Congress prepared to convene, the world watched with hope, suspicion and respect...
...exact "epicenter," the place where the earth's crust had suddenly yielded, loosing the earthquake's force. He thought it lay somewhere off the east coast of Shikoku Island, where the sea is 10,000 feet deep. Careful soundings might eventually show that the sea bottom had moved a few yards. This would have been enough to stir up monstrous waves...
With a scandalous clatter, the bottom fell out of New York's butter market last week. The day after Christmas, wholesale butter prices fell on the New York Mercantile Exchange from 84¼? a lb. to 74½?, sharpest drop in many years...
...Fake Bottom. But, across the U.S., skyhigh butter prices had started to sag in mid-December. In Chicago they went down 7?. A fortnight ago Swift & Co. was so sure they were going down that it contracted to sell upward of 50,000 lbs. of butter to state institutions at 69? a lb., starting in January. So the worried league stepped in and bought upward of 500,000 lbs. of butter, kept a false bottom under the New York market until the January price of milk was set where the farmers wanted it. When the league stopped buying, the price...