Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...submarines operating in the Pacific. Fifty-two had been lost, and one out of seven U.S. submariners never returned. But the "silent service" had sent 6,000,000 tons (one battleship, seven carriers, 16 cruisers, 45 destroyers, 23 enemy subs, 1,322 other ships) of Japanese shipping to the bottom. Not even the much-publicized carrier task forces could match their record...
...with a jail sentence for stealing explosives. Even during his imprisonment, Wollweber kept his apparatus working. Many a Baltic ship listed as a mine casualty was actually the victim of a Wollweber time bomb secreted in its hold. Three of Sweden's most modern destroyers went to the bottom...
...multiplied mightily. In 1909 the annual guano crop was only 77,000 tons. Last year the protected birds turned out 240,800 tons (worth nearly $14,850,000). But the fight to make Peru secure for guano birds is ceaseless. Off the coast, cold water wells up from the bottom of the sea bringing nutrients that support vast shoals of fish on which the guano birds feed. Sometimes a shift of wind or ocean currents brings warm water to their islands. Then the fish disappear, and the birds starve...
...Thurber's work, which comprises 17 volumes of prose and pictures, Nobel Prizeman T. S. Eliot said last year: "It is a form of humor which is also a way of saying something serious. There is a criticism of life at the bottom of it. It is serious and even somber. Unlike so much humor, it is not merely a criticism of manners-that is, of the superficial aspects of society at a given moment-but something more profound. His writings and also his illustrations are capable of surviving the immediate environment and time out of which they spring...
With fortitude I witnessed the shortening of streamers on flat hats and even the elimination of the grommet which made it a flat hat; the reefing in of bell bottom trousers, issuance of pajamas to sleep in, substitution of "right rudder" for "port your helm," substitution of "hostess houses" for the places we used to frequent ashore...