Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seniority is not transferable from one line to another. Thus if a black with long years of service reaches the top of, say, a blast furnace line, he can go no higher unless he transfers to, perhaps, the rolling-mill section-and then he must start at the bottom of that line, often behind workers who have been employed at the plant for a shorter period; in many cases he loses part of his paycheck as well. Although the same rules apply to whites, blacks contend that the burden has fallen unfairly on them because racist hiring practices have lumped...
...influence in the early twentieth century is infinitely more intriguing than analogous stories on this side of the Atlantic about Carnegie or Rockefeller. Wells was born in 1866 to a fanatically fundamentalist mother and a relatively impotent cricket-playing father perched ominously close to the bottom rung of a socially immobile ladder of Victorian society. Relying mostly on his raw intelligence, voracious reading habits, and an outstanding ability to cram, Wells was able to avoid the draper's life his mother had so carefully planned for him. 'Bertie' was the youngest child--spoiled, frail, and often "dreamy." Later in life...
David enters the room. He is soft-spoken, and his tongue moves through the hole left by two missing teeth on the bottom row. "What tales have you been telling the Senorita...
Every tub on its own bottom is a fine philosophy--as long as the potters have the means to continue making their own tubs...
...bottom three players in the Harvard lineup enjoyed equal success. Number seven Fred Fisher destroyed Cornell's Bob Shaftoe, 15-4, 15-0, 15-6. Jim McDonald defeated Jeff Gadboys, 15-8, 15-3, 15-7, at number eight...