Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engine sounded loud and the men instinctively bent low; each reasoned that it might lessen his chance of being seen in the inky blackness. Sixty yards offshore a white headlight seemed to spot the whaleboat for a minute. Then it shifted back inland. All hands flattened in the bottom of the boat. Then they heard the rumble of a freight train heading toward the tunnel that was their target for the night...
...snow-white for the last 49 years, let the Chicago Sun-Times in on the secret of her youth. For five minutes every morning she stands on her head, which "relieves the inner organs from the continual pressure of gravity and gives the blood a chance to circulate from bottom to top, instead of top to bottom." For another fifteen minutes she sits crosslegged, yogi fashion, with her spine straight and her hands...
...manufacturer were running months behind in their deliveries-thanks partially, in some cases, to jittery new orders resulting from the Korean war. Employment reached 61,482,000 in June, said the Census Bureau, within a shade of the 1948 high, and was still rising. With unemployment close to a bottom of 3,384,000 (v. 8,300,000 in June of 1940), there was no big jobless pool to draw from for new armament orders...
...then Eustis met saucy Beulah, who "was like the wicked ones the Prophets roared against: wore her clothes the way they did, and had that little gold chain on her ankle; walked the way they must have done, hip bones loose in their sockets, the bottom part of her stomach held well forward . . ." Eustis prayed mightily but he found Beulah impossible to resist...
Simononi has contended, in a letter to the CRIMSON, "I should like to state that I am convinced that at bottom my activity in the Washington College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors was the chief reason for my dismissal...