Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young black growing up in the Bottom in Knoxville, Tenn., I never knew how deprived I was to have to sleep in the same room with my two brothers, mother and grandmother until sociologists and urbanologists informed me later. I didn't realize it was primitive to have to heat water on a coal stove for my Saturday night bath and to have to use the back-porch toilet until I was grown. Yet I feel lucky when I see many of today's youngsters leave their modern, publicly financed housing projects not realizing what respect, love, compassion...
Outside, as these melodic strains were filling the cool evening, there was the jarring counterpoint of a growing political crisis. From Capitol Hill to Foggy Bottom, Congressmen, bureaucrats, journalists and their groupies hovered in offices near phones for new fragments from the Bert Lance affair...
...This is going to be a full-scale inquiry," says one Senator on the committee. "Once and for all, we're going to settle this issue. We're going to get to the bottom of the Lance affair." Adds an aide to Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware, "Bert's avuncular, easygoing style won't wash this time." Three particular areas of Lance's testimony from previous hearings interest the committee...
...Rochester entrepreneur, and carried out a parallel career in city and state politics. For Vice Mayor Midge (she uses her formal name, Margaret, only on voting machines), politics led to an acquaintanceship with Carter-and, ultimately, her present job. Never married, Costanza lives alone in a Foggy Bottom condominium and devotes virtually all of her waking hours to the job. (The man in her life died last year...
...eager for the water. And once he's in, he can't just swim around for the fun of it and still be a rescue dog. We're striving for controlled instinct, and the balance is crucial." Other tests involve retrieving objects from the lake bottom, ferrying lines and hauling simulated victims ashore. After six hours of being put through their strokes, only two dogs passed the junior level requirements, and none was able to complete the more demanding senior rescue test...