Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contend with faulty torpedoes. Monotonously the patrol reports recited: "Torpedoes ran true . . . didn't explode." Once they did begin to explode, Japan began to bleed to death. Says Beach: "In 1944, approximately half of the ships departing from [Japanese Empire ports] found their final destination at the bottom...
...than reviving the past, and he could never talk about a favorite era or a favorite hero without drawing a moral. One of his favorites was the 18th century ("More broad-minded cusses were around then"); another was Garibaldi, who gave up so much for his country. "The rock bottom thing about life," the Buzzer would say, "is to keep on going when we don't want to keep on going, and to be willing to give up what isn't necessary...
...Vecchio. Then he and two fellow Dominicans were dragged outside to a cross-shaped scaffold. As thousands of Florentines jeered, they were stripped of their white habits. The last of the three, Savonarola silently received the hangman's noose. As he died, a pyre was lit at the bottom of his scaffold...
...Mountain Boys. Denver is the center of the eleven-state Rocky Mountain Region, which was flooded by prehistoric seas that once covered most of the U.S. and laid down the oil-bearing strata along its shore and on its bottom. One Denver geologist talks sweepingly of "a great underground river of oil flowing from Northern Alberta to the Rio Grande." More than $130 million was spent in the area last year tapping the "river." Refineries are being expanded and new ones built; new pipelines are fanning across the mountains...
...industry's greater knowledge and growing technology have enabled it to get still more production out of oil fields. Some, like California's Ventura, had been thought exhausted. Shell has proved up new reserves by drilling its old Ventura wells deeper. Oilmen are now drilling through the bottom of old wells in South Texas, looking for deeper pay sands. Use of gravity-meters and perfected seismograph techniques now enable prospectors to pinpoint formations which could contain oil. But to find out whether oil is there, no substitute has been found for the old-fashioned gamble of sinking...