Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respectability, kept crisp with starch by a stern British nanny named Miss Roose. Nanny Roose taught him English as his first language, saw to it that her bumptious charge stayed clean and neat, that he responded with gracious dignity when addressed as "Your Royal Highness," and that his royal bottom never wanted for a good sound spanking when the rules were infringed...
...some oilmen, mainly the big importers, the growing glut is a result of domestic overproduction during the Suez crisis. They argue for drastic cutbacks in U.S. production. But in many oil states, which depend on oil for more than 10% of their tax revenues, output has already hit rock bottom. In Texas, which supplies 42% of all U.S. oil, October output was limited to twelve days, lowest allowable since 1939. Louisiana wells are producing at history's lowest rate, while Oklahoma is so pressed that it went to court last week with a $500 million suit against Gulf...
...show has bright spots--Oliver Smith's ingenious scenery for a glass-bottom boat scene--and it is generally pleasant, but despite its effective advance publicity here and in New York, it is neither an outstanding example nor an extension of its genre...
James rated the Ivy League in two distinct groups this season. He puts Penn, Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth on top and Columbia, Brown, Harvard and Cornell at the bottom. The Cornell coach thinks that there is little to choose between the squads in each of these classifications and certainly doesn't go along with those who rank Princeton as clearly the best team in the League...
...squad, he feels that it is "neither deep enough nor strong enough" to do too much damage in the Ivy League. He did say, however, that each one of the bottom four teams would win "its few games" and probably upset a couple of the top quartet of teams...