Word: descended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American Electric Power, a big utility holding company that also owns coal mines, has built tremendous smokestacks that tower 1,000 ft. over some of its power plants. When noxious sulfur dioxides are discharged at that altitude, the gases become so mixed with clean air that after they finally descend to the level at which people breathe, the sulfur is too diluted to be harmful. Sulfur can also be removed from coal smoke by special chemical catalysts called "scrubbers" before the smoke goes up the stack. Trouble is, the scrubbers are expensive-the Tennessee Valley Authority is spending $50 million...
...world map magically moved away from you. Just 20 min. after Venice, the heel of the Italian boot had been reached. Moments later, Greece flashed by on the left, and soon Crete and Cyprus were behind us, too. The yellow-brown dusk of the desert began to descend as Captain Norman Todd of British Airways throttled back and glided toward Bahrain, a 231-sq.-mi. island of oil rigs, a refinery and an aluminum smelter; it is a key stopover on the air route to Australia...
...houses of gold, jewelry, furniture and other artifacts thought to be needed in the afterlife. The poor, who could scarcely get through their present life, took a skeptical view of such hoarding and helped themselves. The security of buried pharaohs became a macabre contest. As grave robbers prepared to descend on a site, loyal priests who had set guards on the mummies would rush the embalmed bodies to secret hiding places, one step ahead of the thieves...
Those who stay call those who leave yordim (from the Hebrew verb meaning to descend) and look down on them as deserters. When Gary Bertini of the Israel Chamber Orchestra became the ninth Israeli conductor to leave the country in the past ten years, an angry music lover wrote to the Jerusalem Post...
...debut as host of a live TV special (The World of Magic), Henning will attempt Houdini's famous water-torture escape trick, a piece of submerged wizardry last performed by the master himself in the 1920s. With hands manacled and feet padlocked in stocks, Henning will descend headfirst into a tank of water. To break Houdini's record, he must escape within two minutes. If he wants to continue his TV career, he'll have just a bit more time. Says Doug: "I can only hold my breath for 2½ minutes...