Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry silenced her with a wave of the hand. "Sue me," he said, scraping the bottom of the peanut butter bowl and starting on the marmalade...
Returning to Oregon, Beatie married hastily, was quickly divorced, then drifted to San Francisco and to the bottom of the ladder. He walked slowly, with a cane, and he found relief in cheap wine and whisky. He managed to eke out a living with occasional odd jobs and his $19-a-month Army pension. He kept to himself, lived and drank in a shack behind a waterfront store, did not fraternize with the run of Skid Row bums. Yet for some reason they liked him, and there was something in him that even they could admire...
...supernatural, jolts Shelley by ruling him out of a ghost-story session because Shelley is an atheist; or when Shelley's friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, hopes to seduce Mary while Shelley is away from home; or when Shelley gets a swimming lesson and plunges straight to the bottom, tempted by death and an answer to the Great Mystery. Despite such antics, Mary's father, husband and friends were schooled-and schooled her-to put intellect above all else. When her first daughter, a premature baby, died, she noted in her diary: "Find my baby dead. Send for Hogg...
...pitching and tight defense went for naught yesterday. The Dodgers threw away the script (or shouldn't that be mentioned with Chicago in the Series?) and bombed Early Wynn, Dick Donovan and Turk Lown for six runs in the second inning, which offset Kluszewski's third homer, in the bottom of the frame...
...stock market, which has drifted steadily lower for seven weeks, last week apparently found bottom. In two days stocks bounded up 16.40 points to 632.85 on the Dow-Jones industrial index, the biggest increase in seven months. The slide had not been caused by heavy selling but by a lack of buyers; volume had been thin. Many a broker guessed that the 615-to-620 level, where the market had found strong support last week, may turn out to be a firm bottom from which the market will rise to new peaks...