Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compressed air, a face mask with a broken strap, and stepped into the water. The mask leaked, and the water was so muddy that he "couldn't see the glass in front of my face." But on the sixth dive, groping through three feet of mud on the bottom, his hand touched the dead boy's leg. Minutes later the ambassador had hauled the body up to the bank...
...intemperate streak that pushes him beyond sensible limits in poker playing, makes him work 40 hours at a stretch in a projection room or overdo the plowing on his farm. Sometimes in company he drifts off into trancelike gloom. Though he can be an amiable companion to the bottom of the bottle, he has a reserve that keeps his closest friends at arm's length. "I've never had any intimate friends," he once confided. "If I were in serious trouble, I would have trouble knowing where to turn...
There are several inaccuracies in your discussion of the Junior Qualifying Exam given last spring. To begin with, "the bottom quarter" of the Junior Class did not fail this examination. Sixty-seven took the exam. Of these, fourteen received a grade of "distinction," 26 a grade of "pass," 15 a grade of "marginal pass" and 12 a grade of "fail." The term "fail," of course, means in this context "below B" since the purpose of the examination is to determine a man's qualifications for honors work in the senior year. As one of the four examiners, newly appointed...
...Class of '59 waits with baited breath for next spring. Will the tutors once again eliminate the bottom quarter of the class? Or will they, having given every one a good scare, assume that this class is working harder? Will they return to the old system of not flunking anybody...
...city editor of the Chronicle, Shrike, slips through West's pages sticking the men about him on thorns; he is a complete sadist, whose quiet, corrosive words prick at Miss Lonelyhearts constantly. Pat O'Brien, tested veteran of countless barrel-bottom films, shouts. Playwright Howard Teichmann has promoted the novel's Shrike, with name changed to Spain, to rank with Miss Lonelyhearts himself, boring more holes in the plot's tight belt, as if to accommodate O'Brien's bulk...