Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sullen waters spumed in white fury along the Great Barrier Reef, steely, hidden fingers of coral dug into the bottom of the Endeavour and the hearts of every man aboard. Ordinarily, 18th century seamen panicked fast. Most of them were too superstitious to learn how to swim; they felt it would only prolong the agony of drowning. The only rule of shipwreck and death was to loot the liquor supplies and drink oneself insensible in the short time left to live...
...enjoyed and was instructed by your United Nations report [June 27] ... One main trouble with the U.N. is that it is upside down; the Economic and Social Council ought to be on top and the Security Council on the bottom . . . Peace is not just security against aggression. If we could only obtain a more positive and dynamic vision of peace, we would be as excited about waging it as we now are fearful of war ... It is the work of the Economic and Social Council that is the positive work for peace, and the work of the Security Council that...
Last week the governor's words were borne out. From the Legion's bottom-pinching, water-throwing "fun" organization, La Société des Quarante Hommes et Huit Chevaux, came some of the most agonized sounds in many a year: the Forty and Eight threatened to walk out on the parent organization...
...beer in the farthest reaches of their empire. But in modern days, not even an Englishman could like the ancients' sweet, flat brews. Actually, the first true dry beer came to the U.S. with immigrant Germans in the 1840s. In German fermentation tanks the yeast worked at the bottom of the brew rather than at the top, as in ale, thus producing the lighter, less alcoholic "lager," i.e., "stored" beer, that has become the U.S. favorite...
...farm jobs have defeated mechanization. Peanuts and sugar cane are now mechanically harvested; there is even a machine to pull, top and load sugar beets. Some 60% of the plow market has shifted from two-bottom to three-bottom plows, which plow three furrows at a clip. Before World War II, a two-row cultivator was considered big; now the large size is four-row. One enterprising Iowa farmer has even welded together enough equipment to make himself an eight-row planter, thus spanning twelve acres an hour at 4 m.p.h. International Harvester has a new Electrall tractor with...