Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gamboling Algae. As marimos lie on the bottom of Lake Akan (or of an aquarium in a Japanese gentleman's home), they exhale oxygen which collects as small bubbles entangled in their fur. When enough gas has accumulated, the marimo rises to the surface. It breaks the water with a gentle plop and rolls around languidly until most of the gas has escaped. Then it sinks to the bottom to collect more bubbles. This sportiveness, not common in algae, makes it an entertaining...
...Japanese biologists, including Emperor Hirohito, have studied them lovingly in every possible way. But no one has figured out why they thrive in so few places, or how they reproduce. One theory is that water currents of just the right kind are needed to bounce the marimos along the bottom and detach bits of fuzzy green stuff to grow into young marimos. No marimo lover, however skilled, has duplicated this process...
...moves like a sleepwalker; his smile is that of a man sucking a lemon; his speech is frequently lost in a thicket of syntax: his eyes pop from their sockets or sink so deep in their bags that they seem to be peering up at the camera from the bottom of twin wells. Yet, instead of frightening children, Ed Sullivan charms the whole family...
...brought a flood of imitators promising to give contestants everything from a producing oil well to a quarter of a million dollars. The industry is quivering with the unmistakable impulse of a new "trend." NBC's Weaver, instead of planning new telecasts from Mars or from the bottom of the sea, has been closeted with Question's sponsor (Revlon), promising them the moon if they will move the show to NBC. And CBS's Stanton is equally busy trying to keep the show on CBS. Instead of becoming memorable as the year TV came of age, this...
...Club itself never dragged bottom. Its pace was fast, and its music well-liked. The Paris Herald summed up the group's tour as "a bit of very concentrated Americanism...