Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Service," he said, "is a career service in every sense of the word. Entrance is made at the bottom." The Foreign Service test, he said, "is not a fearsome thing. Forty percent of the Harvard men taking it pass...
...ship went in for the kill. The destroyer hunted back & forth, shotgunning depth charges left & right. Satisfied at last, Captain Soballe switched on his searchlights to look for wreckage. The stabbing white beams found nothing, but the sonar still pinged off a metallic hull resting on the bottom 180 ft. down...
...peoples had related cultures, Dr. Orr thinks. The Black Bottoms, who probably came later than the Red Heads, were somewhat more advanced. They made beads out of steatite, had nicely barbed spears, and ate green abalone instead of red. Both cultures, Dr. Orr believes, flourished 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. Apparently, the Black Bottom mortuary custom was to take out the viscera and fill the abdominal cavity with black clay. The color eventually spread to the bones...
...After the Spellmans started selling the grain, they took pains to fool any Government inspectors who might come along. At the top of the elevator, just below the catwalk, they hung small 275-bu. bins so that anyone looking in would think that the elevator was full. At the bottom, they kept just enough grain to cover the elevator door space, in case anyone peeked in. But they need not have been so careful. In the two years they stored Government grain, no one bothered to check up on them. Not a single inspector called at their warehouse...
...Lord Buckhurst, but Nelly didn't like him, and besides, a scepter was already tapping at her door. Poet John Dryden has described some of the charms that caught the royal eye: "Oval face, clear skin, hazel eyes, thick brown eyebrows ... a full nether lip ... the bottom of your cheeks a little blub, and two dimples when you smile." Add to that a firm, small, voluptuous figure. Charles II took her home with...