Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Immense Pride. Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, summoned to Capitol Hill from Foggy Bottom, made a terse appearance, crunching out his answers as decisively as he stumped out his cigarettes. Roy Cohn, he said, had come to him to ask help about getting a direct commission for Schine, but not with the Central Intelligence Agency, because the CIA "was too juicy a subject for investigation . . ." Ray Jenkins asked if young Cohn had tried to high-pressure Smith into action-a suggestion that must have seemed incongruous to the hardrock old soldier. Snapped Smith: "Not me, sir!" His inquiries...
...battery is first grown in pure crystals, cut into strips, then impregnated to a depth of only one ten-thousandth of an inch with minor impurities. The top surface is treated with boron, whose atom has one less electron in its outer shell than silicon has; the bottom layer is treated with arsenic, whose atom has one more electron in its outer shell than silicon has. When light strikes near the junction of the two layers, it pushes electrons to the bottom surface, pulls "holes" (electronless gaps) to the top surface, creating a difference in voltage. The current formed...
...Strait of Gibraltar. In a century its level would fall 330 ft., exposing 90,000 square miles of new land. Inflow from the Atlantic could then generate power, but other effects might be even more interesting. Ley thinks that the cold water that now flows out of the bottom of the Strait of Gibraltar keeps the Gulf Stream away from the coast of France. With this barrier removed, Western Europe might have a balmier climate...
...fairy godmother in all this is Comedian Phil Silvers, playing a sort of Bottom Banana in the burlesque business; but for all the waving of his magic cigar, the movie is still a pumpkin...
Sophomore Ken Rossano started for the varsity, in the ore-armed absence of Andy Ward, and held at least a one-run lead over the Middies through the seventh inning. He tired then, however, and Navy scored two runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 6-to-5 lead...