Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Tom Watson was no ball of fire in his studies in school. He went to private schools in Short Hills, barely managed to scrape through Hun School in Princeton. After graduation from Brown University, he joined IBM. Starting at the bottom as a salesman in Manhattan's financial district, young Tom soon proved that he was his father's son. In an area where previous IBM salesmen had never made 100% of quota, he hit 231% and hung up a record. Says his father: "That was the only right way. He had to make his own records...
...Then sign it. Right here at the bottom where the X is. Sign it and speak for it on the floor...
Just as I was going to inform her that I wasn't a lawmaker, a small, obese man brushed past us on his way down the steps. She left me and pounced on him as he reached the bottom. As I hurried away, I could hear her voice behind...
...hash. The waiter informed me that it was, "Peppers, apples, meat, pickles, fish, carrots, potatoes, and perhaps more." It was probably the "perhaps" I didn't like. When I'd finished the cheeses, cold cuts, fishes, meats, and salads I returned to the smorgasbord table. I was scraping the bottom of the banana and cranberry bowl as a plump, seventyish woman in chet's attire bustled in to fill the dish. "Ya?" she asked. Ya, I smiled in reply...
Crimson teams in epee, foil, and sabre each started strongly but fell into long losing streaks that left them near the bottom of the standings in each weapon...