Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week the G.O.P. Senators had not found the answer, but they were showing unusual interest in a Republican historical note. When the 69th Congress convened in March 1925, the Republicans in the Senate refused to give four of their colleagues any new committee assignments and busted them to the bottom of the seniority list on their previously assigned committees. The four were Wisconsin's Bob La Follette, Iowa's Smith Brookhart, North Dakota's Lynn Frazier and Edwin Ladd. All had worked for La Foilette's election as President on the Progressive ticket, opposing Calvin Coolidge...
...France's Resident General Augustin Guillaume at a funeral for the European dead, "are the sowers of hatred . . . whose cause cried for blood. It is their appeals to fanaticism and disorder, encouraged so imprudently from outside by our enemies, and alas, by our friends, which are at the bottom of the drama Casablanca has just lived through." The predominantly French crowd cheered, clapped, chanted and booed as if it were at a political rally. What was the point of the slaughter? One arrested Arab nationalist explained: "It was the best way to create incidents so that we could offer...
...dampish, cold evening. Around supper time, a passerby noticed a green Ford truck coasting down a North End hill; at the bottom the truck swung sharply into the Brink's Incorporated garage. There was nothing unusual in this. Trucks customarily went in and out, day and night. But this one had no ordinary cargo: in the rear were six armed, masked...
After the national tennis tournament at Forest Hills last summer, U.S. Davis Cup hopes hit bottom. The U.S.'s No. 1 player, Vic Seixas, was soundly whipped by a fuzz-cheeked Australian named Ken Rosewall, 17. Last week, at Australia's Victorian tournament, last warmup before the Davis Cup interzone finals, U.S. hopes were clearly on the rise...
...passionate feeling that almost give dignity to generally unpleasant revelations. Mark Elliott, who had merely been looking for a mistress, soon found himself swamped by a monsoon of the heart. Said he: "I had wanted something beyond the figments of reality, beyond the specious solidity of this rock-bottom world. A steady, passionate flame. A singlehearted ecstasy. And now it has happened . . . everything has come alive, every moment a shooting star." And Han, somewhat more composed: "Whatever happens now, I cannot be too sad. Sadness is so ungrateful when this has been given." There are too many pages of such...