Word: descended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most frightful failures and the periods of complete prostration that descend on official Soviet literature are due, I am firmly convinced, to the imposition on it by dictatorial means of "Socialist Realism," and in particular of the doctrine of the "Party content" of literature...
Well, don't worry, people, because someday this war is going to be over, and half a million angry men are going to descend on the 50 states with dreams of homes and families and education and jobs. And when they hit the campuses, I sincerely hope that someone tries to stop a Marine "leg" from going to class, or that some sorry, smelly, social reject tries to plant a Viet Cong cross next to the artificial leg of a Seabee, or spits in the burned face of an Army medic. I guarantee that it will only happen once...
...lunar orbit, three times longer than the Apollo 8 astronauts. Stafford and Cernan will separate the lunar module from the command module and fly it for the first time in the lunar environment, some 240,000 miles from home. During the LM's solo flight, it will descend from the command module's orbiting altitude of 69 miles to a height of only 50,000 ft. above the moon, the closest that man has been to the lunar surface...
...foot, across dizzying rope bridges, up perilous footpaths, he scaled heights that literally took his breath away. Once he narrowly escaped death when he slipped and fell, only to catch a sturdy bush ten feet down the mountainside. An equally unnerving incident occurred when he was forced to descend from a 13,500-ft. pass in a blinding snowstorm at night, while rocks exploded all around from the swift temperature change...
...instance, a scandal recently swirled up over the fact that recuperating G.I. patients had been seen slipping out of their wards to seek the companionship of the local bar girls. It was hardly a major issue, but a Tokyo paper trumpeted the story with a headline that shrieked: PROSTITUTES DESCEND ON OJI; PUBLIC MORALE ENDANGERED...