Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When I tried to tell the State Department the same thing, in practically the same words, a year and a half ago, I had my throat Cohned and Schined from career to here,* while the schizoid psychological warriors of Foggy Bottom ran for cover...
What Makes History. This turned out to be a historic blooper-but the blooper was not immediately apparent. The Associated Press did not put it on the wire for some eight hours, and the New York Times buried it at the bottom of a story. It took the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther to discover that Charlie Wilson had delivered an insult without parallel to the American workingman...
...knows what matches what. Odd yet precise matches are Escher's forte. An exhibition of his woodcuts and lithographs in Washington last week featured flights of birds set off against schools of fish, lizards spinning in polyhedrons through the night sky, eerie figures climbing both the top and bottom sides of stairs. His art, as clear and cold as snowflakes, had visitors seeing double and buying by lots. Last week the show was almost sold out at prices ranging from...
...Near the bottom of the program comes the line "Axel Diensen. . . Alfred Lunt," the first tip-off to the pre-curtain speculator that this might not be the crisp nonsense he expects. Then the curtain goes up and it is clear that Mr. Coward and Mr. Lunt are equally dubious about this Diensen fellow. Diensen, it turns out, is a Minnesota railroad baron who, by the author's admission, doesn't fit into the life of either Boston or Belgrave Square. Diensen doesn't seem at home on the stage of the Colonial either...
...goods for what they could get, or moved them to Haiphong 60 miles away, where the French have until May 1955 to get out. The two banks closed, Hanoi's biggest printing plant moved; the leading bicycle manufacturer sold his business for a third of its value. The bottom dropped out of the real estate market; not even Chinese buyers were interested. Those who owned hotels and other buildings simply locked them up and left. The French power company abandoned its installations rather than work under the Communists...