The chief responsibility for the tumult in the Office of Civilian Defense has been blamed on its head, round-bottomed Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, but Eleanor Roosevelt, flitting .
Stoutly girded, round-bottomed as a watermelon, armored with wooden walls a yard thick, the Maude had slid or crashed back to the water again without mishap every time, though on .
That has helped earn her the derogatory epithet lota, the round-bottomed (and thus wobbly) pitchers used in Pakistani bathrooms.
From one pot, a melange of St. Lucian flavors ST. LUCIA, West Indies — Irene Alphonse raises her pickaxe, cutting chunks of brown clay from the hill beside her Choiseul home. In the shade of a lean-to studio, she beats and hand-forms the clay into round-bottomed canawí — the Creole word for cooking pots — and flaring coal pots, which are the vessels of St. Lucia's one-pot cuisine.
Aug. 4, 2013 - Boston.com