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Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Politeesh. It was the bottom of the Depression, and to make matters worse, father Di Salle had lost his job. To keep the family in spaghetti and tomato paste, Tony Di Salle started a small metal-plating business in the garage. Surprisingly, it prospered (and today grosses over $1,000,000 a year). Mike himself progressed more fitfully than the backyard business. Neither commerce nor the law satisfied him. "Some kids like to be cop," Mike's father once explained, "some kids like to be fireman. But Mike-he wants to be the big politeesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: What Have I Got to Lose? | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Only 28% of U.S. voters approved the way President Truman is doing his job, Pollster George Gallup reported this week. It was an alltime low for Harry Truman s political popularity, which hit its previous bottom (32%) in October 1946, just before the Democrats' disastrous drubbing in the off-year congressional election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Alltime Low | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Since it is difficult or impossible to answer the "question" unless you are conversant with "New-speak" or "Aesopean Language" or whatever it is currently called, perhaps it is best to fill in "Suggestions and Comments" at the bottom of the poll in whatever language one commands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stopped Beating Your Wife Yet? | 3/13/1951 | See Source »

Singapore), larger and more elegant homes, wild and lavish partying. They win & lose tens of thousands of dollars at mah-jongg and soo-sek (a game like rummy). Aw Boon Haw, the fabulous "Tiger Balm King," has added a nightmarish swimming pool to his huge Singapore residence; on the bottom of the pool are outsize hand-painted statues of mermaids, Oriental-style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: Boom & Terror | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...strong independents, and forming a more evenly-balanced loop of top teams. The point is to dispose of sextets of the calibre of M.I.T., Tufts, American International, and others which, over a long period of years, have consistently been defeated by phenomenal scores and have settled to the bottom of the New England circuit...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/8/1951 | See Source »

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