Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those who think they are liberals "will do all in their power to help me gain entry to someone else's school or job," Leonard said. "They will say it's not genetics that make black folks inferior, it's environment. But the bottom line is the same," he said...
Jimmy Carter seems determined to apply his people-to-people approach to foreign affairs as well. He pledged an open foreign policy during the campaign, and he seems to have meant it. Whether Foggy Bottom and U.S. diplomacy can take it remains to be seen...
...birthday "lying with his long Etonian legs on the sofa in a negligent, grown-up attitude." While at Eton, Darwin engaged in quoting contests to see who knew Pickwick Papers the best. He practiced for these contests by seeing if he could continue out loud once he reached the bottom of a page. Certainly, Darwin would have ascribed to the Duke of Wellington's statement that "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton," for he considered the English public school, as epitomized in Tom Brown's Schooldays, to be the great builder of the moral...
...export goods out through frozen ports, and more oil had to be imported to keep homes warm. The index of leading indicators-those figures that usually foretell the course of the economy-dropped 1.2%, and factory orders fell 2.1%. The figures, says one Government analyst, "reflect rock bottom, and things should be improving fast from here." Specifically, some economists expect the March unemployment rate to drop back to the January level or below...
Died. Edward Dahlberg, 76, contentious critic, poet and author (Bottom Dogs); in Santa Barbara, Calif. The illegitimate son of a hairdresser, Dahlberg had a bleak childhood in and out of orphanages. His early angry proletarian works evolved into high-styled aphoristic essays in which he denounced contemporary life and letters in a manner reminiscent of Thoreau...