Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five years in power, President Nasser was setting out to create some sort of popular basis for his government. With his soldierly suspicion of all old-style politicians, he had decided to begin at the bottom. In last week's balloting Egyptians and Syrians elected 39,364 local councillors. These councillors would become members of Nasser's National Union, which, he insisted, is "not a single-party system but the framework within which the revolution now beginning will take place." Local councillors will choose provincial councillors, who in turn will elect a General Council for the whole...
...York Giants in 1947 and equaled by the Cincinnati Reds in 1957. Twice last week Washington crashed three home runs in a single game. The amazing part of it all is that the Senators are challenging records set by teams loaded with power from top to bottom. But for Washington this year the muscle comes almost entirely from four men, all righthanders...
Technically, the movie causes curiosity about how the Reds ever got Sputnik off the launching pad. Filmed with three different cameras simultaneously, the images are separated on the wide screen by blurry stripes from top to bottom. The sound track is unpleasantly thunderous, and the Soviet scriptwriters have produced a painful brand of Americanese, delivered through stereophonic loudspeakers located south by southeast of the viewer's ear. Horrible example: "Gee. I'd like to fly on a TU-1O4," says the lady narrator. Reply from the Russian guide (south by southwest): "I think it's just...
...Well, they reached rock bottom last week," my date astutely commented Tuesday night as we left the Tufts Arena Theater. And right she was, both in the statement itself and in its implication that Tufts has taken the first tentative step back toward respectability with the production this week of Alison's House by Susan Glaspell...
...Bottom of the Barrel. The Beacon's circulation reached its peak in 1949 (106,757 v. the Eagle's morning-evening average of 58,000), has since fallen off to 98,311, while the Eagle has built itself up to an 88,455 average. But the real result of the vicious war between the two papers is that both have settled to the bottom of journalism's barrel. Trying to outdo each other in sensationalism, they reach desperately for banner headlines, inflate in significant news, and spend most of their time shrieking at each other...