Word: descending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if everyone did descend on the IAB--which seems to be the hope of the organized fun faction--there would not be enough room for them. The IAB as a dance floor has certain very obvious limitations...
Although Dawson, along with Dante and Langland, sometimes stops for a quiet tear over medieval man's passing, he is far more interested in communicating the worth of medieval man-his feeling for spirituality, his sense of social commu nity, his universal values-to his descend ants in modern Europe. For one thing, the medieval "world of Christian culture" is more akin to the present than the humanist traditions that have governed Europe since the Renaissance...
...pilot radioed his control center and said he would have to descend. Control notified the R.A.F. and commercial control towers, which quickly got slow prop planes out of the way. Then the 6-47 headed downward to level out at 12,000 ft. But before it could make an instrument landing, the bomber had to lighten its fuel load. For an hour and a half it circled the field, using up fuel. There was no place nearby where it could dump its dummy bomb load. By 10:30, it was ready to attempt a landing...
...glowing specter of TV first materialized in British drawing rooms, have debated the wisdom of entrusting its future to the governmental control of the lofty British Broadcasting Corp. Some are motivated by simple boredom at their present TV fare, others by the fear that all sponsored television will promptly descend to the level of J. Fred Muggs, the U.S. chimpanzee who was used to interrupt a New York showing of the BBC's coronation telecast...
...circulation men reckoned without the Trib's aging (73) Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, who huffily frowned on the idea as undignified for the "World's Greatest Newspaper." The circulation men gently persisted, suggested that the dolls were really quite handsome, and urged the Colonel to descend from his tower office and take a look at samples. Grudgingly, the Colonel agreed; however, he made a slight mistake...