Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Surely the bottom of the debauchery barrel was scraped to gain material for these books...
Communism at Home. He pledges to cleanse the Government from top to bottom of subversives, without using the methods that wound "the innocent as well as the guilty . . . Freedom can defend itself without destroying itself...
Churchill continued: "Thousands of tons of mud and rock from the sea bottom were thrown many thousands of feet into the air, and a high tidal wave was caused. The effects of the blast and radioactive contamination extended over a wide area. H.M.S. Plym was vaporized except for some red-hot fragments which were scattered over one of the islands and started fires in the dry vegetation...
...gave up title to the masterpiece, and now his heir, a man named Asa Thomas, has decided to sell. Foreign bidders, said Owner Thomas, have long tempted him with offers, one for ?12,000 ($33,600), but he much preferred to sell to the Tate. He set a rock-bottom Tate price of ?7,500, gave the gallery a three-month option to raise the money. Tate trustees looked hard at their treasury. They could put up ?2,000 toward the price, they decided, but would have to call on the public for the remaining ?5,500. Out went...
...denies that the corrupt practices which seeped into Washington during the last years of President Roosevelt's life were ignored by Truman until public exposure embarrassed him. But this does not mean the Government is the reeking "top to bottom mess" Eisenhower says it is. Six-tenths of one percent of Government employees have been accused of or indicted for malpractice, leaving the Administration only slightly more sullied than Ivory soap. Bue even if .00001 of the three million Government employees were corrupt, newspapers could still have a scandal a day for a year. And since scandals always rate front...