Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days' action against Japan in World War II. Japan must make no military alliances, e.g., with the U.S., directed against any of her former enemies, e.g., the U.S.S.R. Neither party would permit alien navies in the Sea of Japan. Since most of the Japanese navy is at the bottom of the ocean, this would make the waters between Japan and Korea a Russian lake...
...important occasions. When news of Benedict Arnold's treachery arrived, Peale created a two-faced effigy of the traitor, a letter from Beelzebub in one hand, a mask in the other, with the devil behind him (see cut). A small boy hidden in the wagon's false bottom pulled strings to keep the puppet dancing, to the delight of jeering Philadelphians. In 1781, when Colonel Tench Tilghman galloped into Philadelphia with the news that Cornwallis had surrendered, Peale promptly turned the windows of his house into an illuminated display. He filled the windows with colored cartoons of Washington...
...buyer, had 20 takers in the first week. With each Studebaker sale Washington's Lee Butler gave out one share of Stude-baker-Packard stock, free gasoline for the first 1,000 miles. Los Angeles dealers brought in customers by offering a stripped-down model at rock-bottom price, threw in a radio for $1 extra, white sidewalls for a second $1, automatic drive for a third...
...children released a cloud of white doves and rushed forward with huge bouquets of flowers. So engulfed in flowers was Nehru that Marshal Georgy Zhukov ordered Red army guards to pass the flowers over to Indian embassy officials. Premier Bulganin came forward and introduced his Cabinet, all wearing broad-bottom trousers and broader, slap-happy grins, showmen of the new bureaucratic beatitude...
...plains of Piedmont. This ruled out all except three passes. To pick the one that Hannibal took, Sir Gavin used ancient evidence that the army found new snow in the pass and also old snow from the preceding year. Climatological data, based on pollen grains found in ocean-bottom mud, prove that the climate of Europe in Hannibal's time was slightly warmer than it is today. This being the case, only the pass of Traversette, 10,000 feet high, could have plagued Hannibal's elephants with old snow. Sir Gavin investigated the Col de la Traversette...