Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Downs Sir: In the past few weeks this country has accustomed itself to the fact that we are technologically backward. I assume this will be properly investigated by the usual brass-bottom parties. But we are now faced with the fact that we are so inept and so ineffectual in the matter of public relations that we have advertised ourselves as dolts to the entire world...
...seize The Netherlands' vast commercial holdings continued apace, Sukarno made his rounds screened by a phalanx of bodyguards, armored cars and secret servicemen. In Surabaya, Sukarno exhorted a rally of 100,000 Indonesians to prepare for hard times. "We must dare!" he cried. "We must start from the bottom. In the next few years we may be short of food, short of clothing." But Sukarno's flamboyance was gone, his melodramatics unconvincing. His audience listened, unmoved...
...building smothered in snow climbed a husky figure in heavy arctic gear. Dr. Paul Siple. 49. leader of the U.S. encampment at the South Pole, made his way to a spot his group had picked as the exact locus of the earth's bottom, the South Pole. There, he squinted into the wind and looked around. But he took no readings, noted no data. Siple was out for the sheer fun of standing on the pole in the record-breaking cold...
...Noble at 157 scored the other fall, but his took comparatively longer. He had taken down his opponent and gotten a point for a predicament in the first period, and in the second had escaped from the bottom position in only seven seconds. However, he was unable to take down and pin his elusive opponent until 2 minutes and 43 seconds of the second period had elapsed...
...varsity was especially strong at the bottom five singles positions, with Pete Lund, Charlie Poletti, Ed Wads-worth, John Davis, and Fred Vinton all winning in three quick games. This show of depth provides encouragement for the coming season, since the Crimson may not be strong enough at the top to win every match at the first two singles positions as it has done for the past few years...