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Word: bottoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stern is sitting upright on the bottom...one huge piece with a lot of wreckage around," he said. Viewing through video cameras, the crew spotted a crane and the rudder but the propeller was buried and the homeport markings of Southampton had rusted off the stern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explorers Memorialize the Titanic's Dead | 7/22/1986 | See Source »

When the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby shifted from London to Broadway in September 1981, theatergoers gasped at the record-setting $100 ticket price and bottom-numbing 8 1/2-hr. length. Co-Producer Bernard Jacobs of the Shubert Organization described seeing both halves in one day as "participating with the actors in a survival experience." Nonetheless, Nickleby's 14-week run became a sellout, playing to almost 55,000 people and leaving countless others feeling they had missed a triumph never to be repeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Dickens Epic Hits the Road | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...trace campaign contributions given to local officials. They uncovered a nest of questionable schemes, including one to funnel 20 seemingly independent $1,000 contributions to a single state senator in one day. "Without the computer," says Makinson, "this information would have remained buried like a treasure chest at the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: New Paths to Buried Treasure | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...suddenly, as if manna from heaven, the solution to these problems stared me right in the face from the bottom of the styrofoam quarter-pounder with cheese package. Two pickles lay dead in a smear of ketchup and mustard, offering up their lives to improve the rest of the world...

Author: By Bruce M. Kluckhohn, | Title: Soured World View | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

Instead Bachrach has given into the power of the Kennedy name and accepted his role as underdog. Bachrach seems to want to fight from the bottom, which makes him a maverick, the last thing the Democratic party needs right...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Follow the Leader | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

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