Word: descended
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Around noon on Monday, Indian soldiers descend on villages just a few miles from the desert test range and order the pacifist Bishnoi herdsmen, who refuse to kill animals or cut down trees, to evacuate. At precisely 3:45 p.m., three devices explode in five seconds: a normal fission bomb, a low-yield bomb for tactical battlefield use and something like a hydrogen bomb, which U.S. officials later insist could have been only a less powerful "boosted" weapon using tritium fuses to amplify the fission chain reaction. Altogether they unleash around 80 kilotons of atomic power, six times as powerful...
Warren Beatty, who directs as well as stars in this film about a politician who comes down with a terminal case of telling anyone and everyone the truth, initially looks like the Senator he famously hung out with, Gary Hart. But he allows himself to descend so far into the abyss--no shower, no shave, soiled clothes--that he looks his age (61) and, for the first time in a film, doesn't have...
Kelly's monument still stands just outside the iron fence of Harvard Yard where Straus Hall ends. His face keeps watch on all those who pass--the students, tourists, shopkeepers, punks, and derelicts who rush to descend into the tunnels he helped to build, hopping onto the Red Line or just-muttering to themselves while wandering aimlessly, looking for a place to urinate. With the recent erection of the "Magnetic Poetry Wall," some may believe that the spirit of Harvard Square has reached its nadir, particularly if one is reading the latest attempt at actual verse or simply another adolescent...
With less than a week remaining before the teeming ranks of the class of 2002 descend on Cambridge for pre-frosh weekend, a crisis over the involvement of ethnic student organizations in the extracurricular activities fair was averted yesterday with the decision to open the extracurricular fair to more student organizations...
...from record companies across the country convene to determine what they will be listening to next year. Held in Austin, Texas, The South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) Began this Wednesday and runs through this Sunday. Less messy than Sundance, but not without similar intentions, cell phones and diner dates descend on a small unassuming college town. So relax this spring, because the future of pop is in good hands...