Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such purposes make a big difference between our kind of reporting and other kinds; it is somewhat like the difference between trying to learn about fishes at a fish market, or taking the trouble to row out in a glass-bottom boat for a direct look...
...diplomacy's ancient devices, in spreading a self-protecting fog, is to make changes while solemnly asserting that no change has been made. This was obviously what was happening in Foggy Bottom: State's Asia policy had been going through a slow strengthening over the past several months. In all of Dean Acheson's denials last week, he did not once deny that Rusk and Dulles had correctly stated State policy. His principal objection seemed to be that they should not have made it so clear...
Every year about this time, the lamentable Legend of Sydney Pumpton '47 rises to the minds of Seniors like a half-saturated log that has been stirred loose from the bottom of a pond. The tale is passed gingerly from mouth to mouth at breakfast and dinner tables. And Seniors are sore afraid...
...important thing, said the gentlemen at Foggy Bottom, was to keep up the flow of Iranian oil, the prime source of supply for Britain and the rest of Europe. If Teheran refused to collaborate with London, they added, U.S. oil technicians would not be available to run the Iranian oil installations-as the Iranian government had hoped...
...displayed, unabashed, a series of starkly non-objective canvases, she grew confused and silent. Then she brightened as she spotted a picture on the opposite wall: a simple drawing of a house, with a blue strip of sky at the top and a green strip of grass at the bottom. "Now that's very different," she said, relieved but yet unsure. "You have a sort of child-like style there, haven't you?" "My new did that," Goodwin told...