Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressroom, he grabbed his camera, ran for his car. Too rushed to put on his tire chains, he set off behind the police ambulance (which had chains) in a skidding, hair-raising, 75-block chase over slippery roads, through red lights, down an icy hill. At the bottom of the hill lay the boy. As the mother backed away from his bleeding body and another badly hurt boy was carried screaming to the ambulance, Photographer Cowan carefully focused his camera,* shot the picture...
Slow, Big Shivers. "Another bomber roared overhead, quite low, and I saw the first string of flares splash into flame; it was dead ahead of me and it looked close enough to touch. I flopped back on the bottom of the trench and began to shake. The whine started again and I thought, 'They are going to get me this time. . . .' I tried to sink my head into my shoulders, turtle fashion, and I closed my eyes. The whine crept down the scale and I shook, not like shivering from cold but slower and bigger. Some...
...thin and yellow and bottom less, rose against the stilts of the nipa shacks. It flowed level in the roads after the passage of each floundering truck; then lay mockingly smooth again, like rainswept concrete. It cut off villages and made islands of houses. The patient carabao stood happily up to their bellies; chickens and pigs lived on the porches...
...countries, including citizens of Great Britain and Iceland, is outnumbered only by the South Americans. China follows with 59, the largest number from any single country, while various other Asiatic nations contribute 13 more. Canada and other British territories in this hemisphere have 19 and Africa stands at the bottom of the list with...
Despite the continuing success of the war effort, however, the needs of the Armed Forces were growing and, correspondingly, the civilian enrollment of the University was decreasing. The bottom was reached at the beginning of the past summer term, when the total enrollment went down to 1,284 civilians, the smallest figure in 69 years, and a far cry from the peacetime averages of some 8,000 in the University...