Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first big ceremonial bill signing, President Eisenhower lined up three Lucite pens, each stamped "The President, the White House." Then, picking up one pen after the other, he squiggled his signature at the bottom of the Holland bill, which returns to the states the control of offshore oil lands within their historic limits. As the bill became law, one of Ike's cardinal campaign promises became fact. He swung around from his desk with a broad grin for the assembled group of Congressmen and Senators-mostly Southern and mostly Democrats-and asked where "Mr. Sam" was. Texas...
...Interviewed as he was being hauled out of his craft by three burly dockmen, Rheault gasped, 'Nothing to it. Knew I could never make the top of the ladder--precarious position anyway. Always somebody fighting for the top. Nobody fighting for the bottom. That's where I wanted...
...Dawdled all the way back from bridge, talked to sunbathers, caught crabs, trailed one foot in the water--all to make sure that I cinched the bottom rung. I figure no one can shave 30 minutes any closer than that...
...deformed heart. It can't help coronary artery disease or hearts crippled by diseases of old age. But now, for the first time, it is possible to look into the heart. It's sort of like drying out a well to do some work at the bottom...
After reorganizing the company from top to bottom, Ford and Breech began to plow back profits and cash on hand into modernization and expansion...