Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather-beaten gray tombstone with grass and dirt still clinging to its bottom was mysteriously deposited in the Dunster House Superintendent's office yesterday. There is no clue as to how the stone got in the office...
...blame for the nation's current unreadiness went far back. Three years ago, the Joint Chiefs had asked for a $31 billion budget, and had been told to scale it down to $18 billion, which they considered a rock-bottom minimum-only to have the Budget Bureau whack it down to $14.3 billion. They had angrily fought the cuts, up to a point. Then they reluctantly conceded that civilian authority should prevail, and made speeches about how they had no desire to dislocate the economy. Many a Congressman and many a citizen had complacently said: "Well, the military always...
Four of the nation's top companies got new presidents last week. All worked their way up from the bottom...
Santayana passes in review all his favorite ideas-materialism, naturalism, humanism, relativism. Then he dismisses each of them by saying that "chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." This verdict does not land Santayana in the camp of the simon-pure pessimists. Nature, he insists, does trace out repetitive patterns of order, and for Naturalist Santayana the life of mankind is a problem in horticulture...
...Cadenhead's interpretation of the bombastic Bottom is certainly the most uproarious part of the play. Frequently abetted by John Benedict, Alan Purves, and a Basset Hound named Figaro, he minces, roars, seduces the fairies, and generally manages to keep the comedy on a superbly low level...