Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies have combined with electric utilities and other industries to find ways to take the sulfur out of coal. Usually, this is done by sending coal gases through "scrubbers" at the bottom of tall smokestacks that contain a chemical solution to filter emissions...
Vocally her gifts are of a somewhat lower order. The role is one of the most demanding in opera, and while Barlow is an expressive singer, she is weak in both the top and bottom of her range. Nilsson, in other words, need not worry, as Barlow admits with engaging candor. "Nilsson is a high dramatic soprano-the only honest one. The rest of us sing in our own way. But if you can get up there onstage and carry it off, instead of having opera houses closed for lack of great voices...
...notes that his Earth Shoes did what four years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado could not do: teach him to stand up straight. The curious, heels-down construction forces the wearer to lean backward more, and thus to tuck in the belly and bottom and straighten the spine. Some fanatic converts claim that Earth Shoes cure bunions and even stimulate blood circulation. Podiatrists have yet to weigh in with a verdict, but Earth Shoes seem far less dangerous than platforms, which have caused countless sprains and fractures. Most wearers admit, however, that the first few weeks...
...bottom Isadora is a scared feminist, and what troubles her most is what she learned about herself in psychoanalysis. There, she found out about her Oedipal desires, about her masochistic need to be dominated and about her narcisstic need to be admired like the sexy Cover girl--all for love, of course. And she found out how the biggest need always boiled down to pleasing men, a need so embedded in her personality that she had spent a life smoothing over the sticky edges of her personality that didn't fit what men liked. She was afraid to grow...
Derek Bok, after another year's discouraging identity crisis, tries in vain to resign his presidency. "Honestly, I had my letter all typed up," Bok tells The Crimson; "I just didn't' know whose name to put at the bottom...