Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relationship of the U.S. to Europe has long been shadowed by the unspoken feeling that at bottom the U.S. never wholly believed it needed allies and the allies themselves never wholly believed they were needed. Europe was glad to feel needed. West German officials happily concluded that all fears of a U.S. withdrawal from Europe could be dismissed for at least five years, since it would take the U.S. that long to overcome the Russian lead in long-range missiles, and until then the U.S. would have to rely more than ever on its forward bases. Everywhere there was talk...
...good reason: he had killed little Gerald by shoving him off a cliff. Gerald turned out to be a contrite fake, schooled in his masquerade by a conniving uncle (Vincent Price) with an eye on a hunk of the estate. Peter ended up dead at the bottom of his favorite cliff, and Gerald walked off with the heart of Peter's sister, whose female instincts had flagged her long ago that here was no brother. Through all this, Old Pros Judith Anderson and John Williams could do little but stand by helplessly as the script licked two Grangers singlehanded...
First, Exeter is more like Harvard than any other school. The Exonian, having reached the top of a very select and highly competitive group after four years of struggle, is reluctant to admit that he is on the bottom of the pile again. While he is no different from his classmates in this respect, he finds it easier to avoid recognizing his new lowly position...
Also Ice Picks. Al had earned the honor. A murderous, grasping and illiterate slob, he had thwarted the law for 40 years, twisted the politics, and opened the economic veins, of the greatest city in the world. He had done it, at bottom, simply by killing people, personally and by proxy, with ice picks, knives, pistols, the garrote and the bludgeon...
...first time the varsity had been shut out since the Princeton game in 1953, and the margin could have been greater if Dartmouth coach Bob Blackman had left his first string in for most of the game. In the second half, Blackman reached down to the bottom of the bench to give every man a chance to play...