Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reconstruction of the children [of Europe and Asia] is more precious than factories and bridges. For they will determine the good or evil future of Europe. ... If every source of supply [is] scraped to the bottom of the barrel, we can pull the world through this most dangerous crisis...
Malnutrition is slow starvation. Doctors agree that 1,500 calories a day (the U.S. Army gets 3,600) is rock-bottom if the body is to perform even the primary function of keeping alive. Below 1,500 calories the body begins to feed on itself. Fat layers between muscles and around vital organs disappear. Anemia sets in. As resistance is lowered, the system falls easy prey to tuberculosis, dysentery, blood poisoning...
...conciliator, all but cries out that some of his best friends are British. The joint management of World War II, says he, was on the whole "spectacularly efficient . . . the most effective example of management of allied armed forces in the history of warfare." The British, moreover, are at bottom not so bad, and much "like us." The catch is that they always act in what seems to be their national interest, irritating practice to the U.S., which also wants to act that way. "The British did not succeed in imposing their will on us, and the war was won more...
Tsunami follow any submarine earthquake which causes a fissure or crack in the earth's crust. When a part of the ocean bottom drops away or when there is an underwater landslide, water surges in from all sides to fill the void...
...open ocean the long swells may pass almost unnoticed, since they do not rise to breaker height until the trough begins to scrape sea bottom. Then, as speed is reduced by friction, the water piles up into steep, precipitous peaks. Last week in Hawaii eyewitnesses guessed the tsunami ran as high as 100 feet. Best estimate: 45 feet. Either way, they were enough to smash the city of Hilo on the exposed northeast side of the island of Hawaii, kill some 200 of its inhabitants, deposit 14 feet of silt in its harbor and wriggling fish in its coconut palms...