Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance, and other labor-saving farm machinery are expected to displace 2,000,000 field hands by 1965; many of them will be available for factory work.) The South's labor population is young and quick to learn. Employers who complain that they have to scrape the bottom of the labor barrel in the North find they can pick, choose and train the brightest of young Southerners...
When the Amphitrite's lifeboat was hauled into the Charleston docks, six waterlogged life-jackets lay inside. Two oars were underneath the seats. A single blue canvas sneaker bobbed in the salt water that covered the bottom of the boat, occasionally bumping into the metal ice trays, which gleamed dully in the bilge...
...portions were small and the potatoes had a graytinge. But the entire company began to nod and compliment the cook. When he produced the dessert, "my specialty," he had difficulty removing it from the pan. The cake was burnt and had stuck to the bottom...
...week's end, the Americans bowed out of Strasbourg, leaving behind a blunt warning that U.S. taxpayers are getting tired of helping to finance quarrelsome, divided Europe. "The cookie jar has a bottom to it," said Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley. "We want action, not words." European delegates were left breathless, puzzled and more than a little annoyed. The Americans seemed unwilling to concede that, just as they themselves had semi-official status but did not speak for the U.S., so their fellow legislators represented countries but not governments...
...shoulder, but allowed the Supreme Commander free tactical management of the negotiations, so long as he stayed within broad lines of policy laid down in July. Recently, however, Washington has had a queasy feeling that Ridgway was being too stubborn, and Washington decided to intervene. Somewhere between Foggy Bottom and the thick-carpeted rookeries of Pentagonia, a plan to break the deadlock over a ceasefire line was cooked up and handed to Ridgway. Last week Ridgway's men served it up, piping hot, to the Reds in the rain-soaked tent at Panmunjom...