Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bust of the master. In ten days it was finished and John was entranced by both Fiore and sculpture. "She's an amazing person," he roars waving his arms. "She's a grand girl and a very talented sculptor." Says Fiore: "We got on like shirt and bottom...
...response to this wave of investigators has been described as "absolutely demoralized," by the crippling of its staff and the injection of an atmosphere of fear into the United Nations. Many delegations including the Canadians, British and French have protested vigorously against the process. Their protest is, at bottom, a deep concern with any extension of McCarran's investigation to other parts of the U.N. Although Lie has protested that the Secretariat works in a "glass house," and is "unfertile soil" for subversives, he has not resisted the Committee's pressures. The French and British protests arise from the uncertainty...
...skills and sufferings, Narayan failed in his first purpose. Recently he got to thinking that if he performed a really long penance, God might be pleased enough to bring "peace to the world." A fortnight ago, frail, black-bearded, 56-year-old Narayan let himself down to the bottom of a deep, six-foot-square pit outside of New Delhi. He spread the skin of a deer on the pit's wooden floor, placed his sandals carefully by his side, sat down and assumed the cross-legged "lotus position." Then he passed out a signed statement: "If anything wrong...
Contrary to Secretary of State Dulles' well publicized opinion that we can handily end Korean hostilities by making the war "unprofitable for Russia," Reischauer feels that (1) we have practically scraped the bottom of soldier potential in South Korea, and (2) Russia avoids trouble with the nationalist-minded Chinese only by keeping them at was with...
...years ago, flying 7,500 miles in 60 hours, he landed in Iran for perhaps his toughest job. An Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. well was burning at the bottom of a cup-like rim of hills which held in the heat until the temperature registered 250° even some distance away. He showed Anglo-Iranian's crews how to rig up a bulldozer with asbestos-lined iron shields, got them to lay a 22-mile pipeline to the nearest river to pump in water to the work. Under the spray, he used the armored bulldozer to shove dynamite...