Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral's Flag. In The Bronx, Anthony Dentini suspected his wife of having a male visitor, complained that Mrs. Dentini always signaled her admirer by hanging her husband's pants on the clothesline right side up when he was at home, bottom side up when he was away...
...days, Marshal Govorov's army group had killed 30,000 Germans, captured 15,000 more. When Govorov seized Ainazi, on the Latvian coast, the Germans lost their only rail-served port north of Riga. For two months they had stubbornly clung to an escape corridor at the bottom of the gulf-yet, when the Russians captured the inland rail town of Cesis, they found it had been reinforced by Elite Guard and aviation cadet units from Germany...
...last of the Nazis out of the northernmost of the Baltic States, the Second and Third Baltic Armies, directly to the south, drove through Latvia to squeeze the Germans against the Gulf of Riga. To close the trap, the First Baltic Army swung north to take Riga at the bottom of the Gulf...
...model of the Humphrey in a tank of water over & over again. Finally he knew every detail of the job. In the Straits this summer Roen sank a salvage barge over the freighter, attached cables and filled the barge with air, thus lifting the freighter six feet off the bottom. Then he towed the Humphrey along until she dragged on the bottom again. In a series of eight of these operations, he moved the Humphrey a mile and a half under water. When she reached shoal water, Captain John began pumping air directly into her double bottom...
...South contains eight of the last ten (tail-ender: Arkansas; Virginia is 14th from the bottom...