Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treasury is as bare as the school board president's bottom...
...mayor was vacationing at a secret hideaway last week, recuperating from an ulcer attack. The president of the school board was fined $115 in court for flashing his bare bottom from a car window. The city council president and five other councilmen have been indicted on charges of accepting kickbacks from carnival operators. The city faces bankruptcy and can only pay its policemen for another week...
...quarterback receives the ball from between the center's legs. After a successful play, teammates sometimes hug or slap each other on the bottom. The possible homosexual implications of these and other football rituals have long been noted by professional and amateur behavioralists alike. But none have studied the subject more closely than Alan Dundes, an anthropologist at the University of California in Berkeley. In his view, fanny patting and centering the ball are only the tip of the gay iceberg. Writing in Western Folklore, Dundes says that the "unequivocal sexual symbolism of the game" makes it clear that...
...Sears, Roebuck to expand operations within the cities. This need not involve economic sacrifice. Such highly successful downtown malls as Houston's glossy enclosed Galleria, Boston's colorful new Faneuil Hall Marketplace and San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square restoration show an appreciation of both architectural and bottom lines...
...buyer to send $50 to the person whose name is at the top of the list. He then makes two copies of the letter, and on those crosses out the name of the person to whom he has sent the money. He adds his own name to the bottom of the list, and then attempts to sell the copies he has made for $50 each...