Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his near-bottom rung in the civil-service hierarchy (at a salary of ?850 yearly), the man who didn't know his way in London had, by war's end, thought, talked and worked his way up to being Permanent Secretary of the combined Ministries of Supply and Aircraft Production (at ?3,500 a year). To explain the phenomenon, some of Franks's friends fumble with such fuzzy words as "elusive" and "intuitive" to describe his gifts, but one who has known him for years put it very simply last week: "Franks is essentially a very...
...Bottom. Firemen stretched aerial ladders to the ship's sides, played hoses on people burning alive at the rails. One man climbed down, moaning "No, no, no, no!" He fought police who tried to lead him away from the pier, shouted: "I've got seven people on that ship!" Another had a grisly blob stuck to his hands: he had tried to beat out the flames in a woman's hair, had come away with part of her scalp...
Later, when Jesse became a superintendent, he found things less pleasant. Educationally, Kentucky was near the bottom of the nation's list ("Thank God for Arkansas," people used to say). The schools were often under the thumb of dictatorial trustees "who couldn't write their names, who would not know their own names if they had been printed on road signs...
...Gromyko, the sharpest dresser of them all according to T & C, "commits the sartorial crime of tying his evening bow behind the points of his wing collar. He also affects the American habit of pressing a crease in his sleeve." Ex-Ambassador Maisky "makes the mistake of fastening his bottom waistcoat button" -a mistake, admits T & C, that might be accounted for by the class-conscious fact that "the leave-it-undone style was created by royalty...
Marion Goodhue, who farms 700 acres in the Des Moines River bottom lands near Carlisle, had just paid $2,300 for another three steel bins and a steel crib...