Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprised and chagrined to find the repulsive physiognomy of Dave Beck adorning the cover of your (until now) highly respected publication. Recently, you "honored" that international bandit Nasser, and now you have really touched bottom in the April 8 issue...
Dale Junta, Steve Gottlieb, Larry Sears, and Cal Place all took brief vacations from the intercollegiate circuit, leaving Ben Heckscher and the bottom five men on the team to deal with the Bruins...
...which could compose a solid, bottom-of-the-barrel melodrama. The plot runs along smoothly, but is not better than most plots. The actors have choice lines much of the time, but they must also bring off some pretty shoddy writing: "kiss me Richard; kiss me as if it were the last time." The film is raised to the level of superlative, escapism entertainment because fine acting gives an indifferent story meaning beyond its worth; there are no second rate performances. Casablanca is an artificial world, where people who are not people are ideal though heroes, or murderers, or females...
...efforts to climb out of the slough of despond, and there is no use crying over spilt milk; whilst, if they are but allowed in their own way to put the best face on it they can, the country must eventually be able to stand again on its own bottom, though we cannot expect to let them eat cake and have it too. A remarkably clear statement of plain fact, we would call it. and we can't understand how some people can have the guile to go about pretending they hadn't quite caught what...
...reader's patience"; it also impairs the readability of many stories that would gain suspense and clarity from a straightforward telling in narrative style. The old-fashioned story structure developed so that the makeup man in a hurry could cut any story from the bottom without destroying its sense. But today, Moriarty wrote, the breadth and quantity of news require the modern technique of planning pages carefully so that the editor knows in advance how much space awaits each story...