Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uncle of mine. One particularly delightful anecdote which has come down in the family concerns a feast given to a visitor, a friend of Catlin's. As the assemblage sat on the ground, a squaw passed behind the tenderfoot and whispered hospitably, "Dig deep, white man; puppy in bottom...
...cause of the crisis was the question of Canadian Army reinforcements. Evidence had been piling up that reinforcements for Canada's overseas army were inadequate. In Calgary, Brigadier P. R. Shields, home after five years of fighting, said that when he left England "they were scraping the bottom of the pot." The Montreal Gazette frontpaged a letter from a soldier wounded on the Western Front: "... all the politicians lie who say that reinforcements are adequate. ..." From London came word that the First Canadian Army, already reinforced by Poles, Czechs, Dutch and Belgians, was being further reinforced by U.S. troops...
Like everybody else, scientists have long wanted to know what Davy Jones's locker holds, besides sunken ships. Oceanographers have done some probing and charting, but the bottom of the ocean is still mostly a vast unknown. A Columbia University geophysicist, Maurice Ewing, recently reported that he had found a way to explore that sunken scene: a camera with which he has photographed the ocean floor at depths up to three miles...
...Twenty-four Jap warships were on the bottom: two battleships, four carriers, nine cruisers, three flotilla leaders and six destroyers...
...settled upon Europe with chilling rains, hunger and uncertainty. It was different from any winter since 1939, for the focus of despair had shifted from German-occupied countries to Germany. But retreating Nazis left chaotic disruption, vital shortages, and something more portentous. Liberated Europe was like a sea bottom from which the ebbing of a foul tide had exposed strange, unfamiliar, disturbing forms-the forces of the social war of which World War II was a military expression...