Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Park Thomson, former secretary to retired House Speaker Carl Albert, to testify for five hours before a closed session of the committee. Clearly, Jaworski was determined to get to the bottom of the scandal, which could implicate scores of present and former Congressmen as well as the South Korean government...
...zombie. She says she is dead in side. "You are not dead!" says Robin, as the music rises. "You're alive and sick and living in New York just like 8 million others." The little splashes at this point are tears; the big one is sentimentality, hitting bottom...
...shocking to striving, mobile America. Long used in class-ridden Europe, then applied to the U.S. by Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal and other intellectuals in the 1960s, it has become a rather common description of people who are seen to be stuck more or less permanently at the bottom, removed from the American dream. Though its members come from all races and live in many places, the underclass is made up mostly of impoverished urban blacks, who still suffer from the heritage of slavery and discrimination. The universe of the underclass is often a junk heap of rotting housing, broken...
Lowell has tuned his verse to the fits and starts that form his subject. Gone are the unrhymed sonnets that filled his last three books. Lines are now cut short, frequently reaching only five or six syllables. Whole poems appear to have been cut in half, from top to bottom, with only the left side remaining...
...executive is President Konstantin Shartanov, 36, a graduate of Moscow's Academy for Foreign Trade, but in the best tradition of multinational capitalism is run largely by host-country citizens: John Chambers is general manager and James Kelly director of dealer development. "We are very conscious of the bottom line," says Chambers, and he is motivating his salesmen and dealers with distinctly uncollectivist incentives: sales bonuses, commissions and free Caribbean cruises...