Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal for a closing communique, thus managing to alienate even his associates in opposition. Conceivably some of Shepilov's tactics were the result of diplomatic inexperience, and they hurt him with fellow diplomats who found him, at least as a table companion, infinitely preferable to his predecessor, "Stony Bottom" Molotov. Shepilov displayed a greater Soviet interest in exploiting the naked political possibilities of trouble than in solving the problem that had brought them together. His ambition seemed to be to make it hard for Nasser to negotiate on the majority plan...
Agriculture. "When this Republican administration took office the bottom was falling out [of farm prices]. Under the new Republican laws in the first six months of 1956 average farm prices steadied and then went up. They are still going up ... The farmer today can once again look forward to raising his crops for his markets instead of Government warehouses...
When Congress began battling over an election-year farm bill seven months ago, the situation of the U.S. farmer was one of uncertainty. Prices of most farm commodities had hit bottom, the parity ratio had fallen to 80%. Traders, realizing that the largest U.S. farm surplus in history was jamming storage bins, sold short or shied away from the exchanges, and futures prices were shaky. But now the attitude of the farmer has changed from uncertainty to the beginnings of cautious optimism...
...will was still there-in Britain, France and (as long as the method chosen was peaceful) in the U.S. But the way was not clear. Search as they might, the legal beagles of Downing Street, Quai d'Orsay and Foggy Bottom could find no legal challenge to Nasser's nationalization of what was in fact an Egyptian company. What they challenged firmly was the way Nasser did it-precipitantly, without negotiation-and why he did it: "To arouse Arab nationalism...
...Major Chuck Yeager. Exactly 20 minutes after he had been cut loose from the B-50, Pete Everest, gliding toward the field, was overtaken by a supersonic F-100 that had been left far behind by his wild ride, and escorted to a dead-stick landing on the dry bottom of Muroc Lake...