Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effective statement in the U.S. Said Nikita Khrushchev: "As a result of the useful talks we had with President Eisenhower, we came to the agreement that all of the pending international questions should not be settled by force but by peaceful means-by negotiation. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your hospitality and, as we say in Russia, for your bread and salt. Let us have more and more use for the short American word 'O.K.' " And Nikita Khrushchev was gone...
...Then," says Miss Johnson, "he showed me the bottom of the suitcase. On it was a doorbell, just a regular little button, and he said when he set the suitcase on the ground it would press the button and it would blow up. He put the suitcase down with one end on the ground and the other end on the tip of his shoe so the button wouldn't touch the ground. I told the children to get back again. I sent a second runner into the school. I thought maybe the first had been stopped in the hall...
Profit on Property. Chances are only fifty-fifty, Stevens admits, that Property will get the code's approval. It is the story of two switchblade hoodlums and their step-by-step seduction of a sex-starved housewife. Murder (at the bottom of the Stevens swimming pool), sadism, and an uncommonly forgiving husband are all crammed into the script...
There was another villain in the Deadwood legend: fire. Any flicker of flame in the bottom of the valley would feed upward to the houses above. And every Deadwood youngster knew that the gulch was a natural chimney when forest fires swept through the adjacent piny hills. A fire starting in a bakery charred Deadwood in 1879. The town was rebuilt with a water barrel on every roof, survived three big fires in 1951-52. Last week, for 24 hours, Deadwood (pop. 4,000) broiled under the windswept fingers of a forest fire that threatened to cook it once...
...they searched seismograph records for similar earthquake centers in unsounded parts of the oceans. By last week the Lamont men could trace the cracks 40,000 miles clear around the earth (see map). As in the Atlantic, the cracks generally follow the tops of rises in the ocean bottom. They stay midway between large land masses, but in a few places they run ashore, forming, for instance, the steep-sided Jordan Valley and the famous rift system in East Africa which contains both Lake Tanganyika and the Red Sea. Another crack runs ashore in Mexico, to form the Gulf...