Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deal does nothing to prevent Nixon from contesting in the courts further efforts to get to the bottom of the scandals known collectively as Watergate. Given the ex-President's refusal to admit any guilt, he may indeed do everything to prevent access. For the sake of history and for the nation's peace of mind, justice should be seen to have been done in Nixon's case; the full and final record should be laid bare, as it was in Spiro Agnew's removal from office...
...great frontiers: the rugged, seismically active rift valley that cleaves the floor of the Atlantic almost all the way from the Arctic Ocean to Antarctica. Last week, as the scientists who took part in FAMOUS (for French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study) returned home from their expedition to the bottom of the sea, they reported that their little craft had discovered important new clues to the secrets of continental drift...
...that people are still reading and discussing is a slim nonbook titled The Best. Compiled by two Columbia professors, Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best is neither the Reader's Digest version of The Best and the Brightest nor a capsule Social Register. The Best is, at bottom-which is just three-quarters of an inch from the top-a shallow smattering of opinion and data based on a surfeit of snobbism and a poverty of research. The professors treat their audience like a class of life's freshmen. They offer no criteria, arbitrarily choosing the Best...
...also be starting to make its way to North America, Panella's office has set up a branch in The Hague. In early August two Canadian students were arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport as they were about to board a plane for Vancouver; in the false bottom of a suitcase they had hidden 6½ lbs. of heroin, worth...
While the individual American, like any other person, remains tied, at bottom, to the place of his childhood, he realizes, as in the Thomas Wolfe title, that "you can't go home again." Americans leave home to pursue their fortunes elsewhere, in strange locations and foreign surroundings. And as soon as they are installed in the new situation they feel alien and misplaced, as though torn from some childhood Eden. So they move on, settling elsewhere in a vain effort to resurrect the shade of the trees on their childhood street and the sun-bright dust on the local ball...