Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been in limbo during the interregnum months. The report of the Committee on the Practice of the Arts, shelved the preceding fall by a disinterested Dean Dunlop, was released suddenly in mid-May. Although President Bok had apparently been instrumental in moving the arts proposal out of the bottom drawer of Dunlop's old desk (with some pressure from the Arts Committee), Henry Rosovsky also played an important role, one that he has continued to play this term. As one administrator said at the time, "the dean's muscle" is necessary to catalyze the Committee's controversial proposals, which include...
...feel that Mr. Nixon has violated his promise to the American people to get to the bottom of the Watergate affair, or do you feel that he is keeping his promise...
...front, thinking of my family, scratching the names of my wife and son on the bottom of the trench I said, 'How is it possible that I, anti-patriot, anti-militarist, who acknowledged only the International, come to attacking my companions in misery and perhaps shall die for my enemies against my own cause and my own interests?'" --a French syndicalist, after the World War I mobilization...
Penn, which was bumped out of the first place slot last week in its 24-21 loss to Yale, will play a dismal Columbia team in New York. Penn leads the league in total offense, while Columbia ranks at the bottom in both offensive and defensive statistics...
...fish are dead, for example, although there are still occasional schools of goldfish to startle the unwary passerby. "The first ones to die are the nicest ones, really," Noss said mournfully. "Trout need five parts oxygen per million, and carp need only point five parts. And down at the bottom of the Lower Basin, it's constant by now, really, there's almost no oxygen at all, so there are no organisms to clean...