Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue and white Aeroflot TU-154 jet airliner taxied to the far end of the terminal at Frankfurt's Rhein-Main Airport. From the first-class exit emerged a husky 55-year-old man with a distinctive fringe of red beard. At the bottom of the ramp, a German hostess handed him a single pink rose; he smiled faintly and bowed over her hand. As police held a swarm of newsmen at bay, the traveler got into a Mercedes-Benz limousine that whisked him to the tiny village of Langenbroich, 100 miles away. Arriving at his host's small farmhouse...
...heard hearty laughter and loud, chicha-induced talk coming from the deep recess of the bottom floor of this two-story house...
While the difficulties faced by most foreign immigrants and their descendants lessened in time, certain ethnic groups were much less able than others to adapt to Boston, and found themselves stuck at the bottom of the economic ladder. The Irish and the Italians were distinctly less upwardly mobile than other immigrant groups. On the other hand, 75 per cent of all second-generation Russian-Americans--many of whom were Jewish--finished their careers in white collar jobs...
...until she got settled," Harley says, in a left over row of dingy closed-out storefronts by the train tracks--in the center of the industrialized area off Route 23 just beyond Mr. Flood's Get Your Foreign Car Fixed garage and Super Gas at the bottom dip in Main Street. Behind the loft lies a fenced-in junkyard facing the Huron River and the rusted factory on the opposite bank. Harley figures that the Great turned Kimberly Rath on, but he can't be sure...
...History has a way of clearing leaders like President Nixon after all the verbal and printed mud of trivialities sinks to the bottom of the pool and the clear water of truth and performance again appears at the top. My only disappointment in the President will come if he ever resigns, or permits impeachment, without a fight...