Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoover is an orderly man. At the bottom of him is his Quakerism. Not all reformers look like Mahatma Gandhi. Some reformers, of a statistical turn of mind, look like Herbert Hoover. The Indian and the engineer once met. Hoover was pleased to discover that each carried the same make of cheap watch (Gandhi's was pinned to his loincloth). "A mark of our common humility," said Hoover. The urge to straighten things out, shared by Gandhi, is what has kept Hoover so busily at work...
Reveille. In Joliet, Ill., William A. Hall, 22, dozed while his car swerved into a power pole and plunged 100 ft. to the bottom of a quarry, where he stepped out unhurt but wide awake...
Sophomore at last--no longer would the man from the class of 1927 be at the bottom of Harvard's intellectual pile; no longer would pert Radcliffe classmates snootily tell him that they didn't date "freshmen." He felt he had grown up over the summer, and might now talk about the current Coolidge-LaFollette Davis Presidential race with authority. During the fall, he Crimson treated him to an almost undiluted diet of football, religion, politics, and more football...
Test Case. In Houston, Mickey Martinez jumped into an undertaker's display coffin and lowered the lid, later explained to police: "The satin stuff on the top was nice and soft, but the bottom sure was hard...
...account of Commander J. K. Fyfe's Bat fish, which stalked enemy sub marines and sank three in four days. And there is the near-incredible last patrol of Commander Richard O'Kane's Tang, which sank eleven ships and was finally sent to the bottom by one of her own torpedoes...