Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hall children had a robust country upbringing. In the winters there was coasting on the slope of the big hill where their house stood, and skating on the pond at the bottom. On summer days the family often picnicked on the beach, where father Hall had built a brick oven for feasts of winkles and horseshoe crabs. There were few luxuries, and the Hall boys chored around the neighborhood for spending money, but it was a happy, close-knit life. His mother taught Len how to handle a gun (he is still a skilled trap-shooter), and tutored...
...vote. But Togliatti, due back from Moscow where he had enthusiastically endorsed the Khrushchev line (a confirmation of his longtime policy in Italy), was more firmly entrenched in the leadership than ever before. The old militants were naive indeed if they thought Communist policy could change from the bottom...
...best bet to keep the U.S. from sending effective help to Europe, and for a time in 1942 and 1943 it had looked as though the bet would pay off. Together with Italian subs, they had sent more than 3,000 Allied ships and 40,000 men to the bottom...
...sank ships in broad daylight within sight of the East Coast. How quickly Allied brains and guts turned the tide can be read in Morison's triumphant figures: of nearly 13,000 ships that sailed the North Atlantic in convoy in 1944, only 13 were sent to the bottom...
...Danny Kaye is the Prince's nurse. The Prince, who is eight months old, has been brought to the forest after Roderick, the film's usurping tyrant, has massacred the rest of the royal family. The Prince deserves the throne because he, and not Roderick, has on his bottom the royal birthmark--the Purple Pimpernel. By a stroke of good luck the demure Miss Johns knocks out a passer-by named Giacomo the Jester, who is in reality a secret agent. Dressed up in Giacomo the Jester's outfit, Danny Kaye goes to the castle...