Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Matt Botsford led the Crimson attack, hitting four singles in four times at bat. But it was Bob Hastings' clutch single to left and an error by the Dartmouth catcher that combined to give the varsity two of its three runs in the bottom of the fourth...
...horizontally" into café society, but smarter girls take jewels, avoiding income tax and naughty names. The real immoralists are her patrons, who have $100 to throw away on such prosaic entertainment. They, not Minot or his Patsy, should be tried. Other career girls also have started at the bottom. Pat's sin was not ambition but impatience...
...Sunday afternoon, and the band of students who call themselves "The Chinese High School Singsong and Harmonica Corps" were practicing in a second-floor club in one of the busy sections of Singapore. From the bottom of the stairs, a voice called up and asked in friendly Mandarin to speak to Corps Leader Lee Tai Lim. A few seconds later, a shot rang out and 21-year-old Lee fell dead in the street. He had been well known in Singapore as an active anti-Communist student leader. Said the police, as they offered a record reward...
...that could hold him. Shortly afterwards he found himself tied fast, squeezed into a box measuring 40 inches square. He was lowered by crane into a fast-rushing river. But suddenly the shaft-pin broke and the box fell into the water. When Blackstone smashed thought the pine wood bottom and came to the surface, he was dangerously close to some falls. He was but feet from the edge when he freed himself from his ropes and grabbed a cable stretched across the river to keep boats from going over the falls...
...soloist Jean Lunn. To her customary refinement of diction and gifted insight into the music as a whole. But her singing and a few instrumental solos were the only high spots. The chorus sang with colorless tone and indifferent diction most of the time. Furthermore, Greenebaum made the texture bottom-heavy with a basso continue of four cellos, double bass, and bassoon. As a result, big ensembles plodded badly and the duet for soprano and bass seemed interminable until it finally expired...