Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week L'Unīta, the party journal, published a simple, two-column box announcing that Togliatti had been confirmed as secretary general, and Comrade Luigi Longo as deputy secretary general. At the bottom of the list, after describing all other members of the national politburo, came this line: "Comrade Pietro...
...England last week. Each participant buys two bonds (total outlay: $37.50), gives one to his sponsor and pops the receipt for the other in the mail to the person on the top of an eleven-name list. He then knocks the top name off, and adds his to the bottom. Then he lines up two friends, collects a bond apiece from them (thus gets his money back), and makes sure that they each mail a bond to the new No. 1 man. By the time a bond buyer gets to the top, he theoretically should receive 2,048 bonds...
Prisoners wear quilted uniforms, men in blue, women in black. The uniforms of political prisoners are stenciled, top and bottom, with combinations of numerals and letters which tell prison officials at a glance the prisoner's history. No histories could be more varied. The camps contain Old Bolsheviks who claim acquaintance with Lenin and Trotsky, Socialists, at least 30 Wehrmacht generals and several thousands of German prisoners of war, thousands of Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, executioners who worked for the SS in the Ukraine, SS men, thousands of Russian and Ukrainian Jews (some of them victims...
...expect executives to be more mature, but they frequently aren't." Wright himself ran into real trouble on how to list the names on round-robin office memos until he finally decided to list them alphabetically. Since this put Wright's name at the bottom, everybody was happy...
Soby himself is bullish, with reservations : "Certainly some of the famous artists of the past 75 years may one day slide abruptly down the banister of the staircase their market has ascended by stages; some will make the climb again; others will slump forever at the bottom of the flight. It seems to me, however, that the big figures in 20th-century art will hold their lofty place or go still higher...