Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When his plane arrived, they booed him lustily-partly for banning a Saint Patrick's Day parade in Londonderry, partly for representing the hated partition of Ireland, and partly for supporting the British Crown. "There'll Always Be An England While She Can Deal from the Bottom," read one placard...
...lifeboat, directed to the spot, wallowed alongside in seven-foot waves, finally grappled Dickie's half-filled raft. All four adventurers were aboard. Two of them lay with their arms around each other. One of them sprawled over the raft's end, the other lay on the bottom in the sloshing, near-freezing water. All were dead of exposure. Two days later a Coast Guard patrol picked up the derelict canoe, floating emptily, still anyone's prize...
Students whose rooms were listed as "chronically untidy" in Christmas and spring vacation inspections will go to the bottom of the class list...
...recent rumpus about Leverett House has illustrated an apparently common fallacy--that there is a scale of quality among the Houses. There appears to be a widespread belief among freshmen at least that certain Houses rank at the bottom of a College-wide caste system. One pictures the word sweeping around the Union: "Gad man, don't go to Leverett, it hasn't got a tower." Of course it might just as well be the size of courtyards, but this season it is towers, so hundreds of freshmen gallop off to beat on other portals...
Late arrivals sacrifice their priority on first choices, and will be placed at the bottom of their class list...