Word: descending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every time the train halted at a small town, a horde of black jerseys would descend and startle the natives with a quick signal and passing drill. Between stops, the players would do calisthenics in the aisles, and if the train broke down, they would dash outside to do wind sprints while repairs were being made...
Study in Underpants. Last year Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley impressed himself on the folks back home by posing for photographs with his gavel about to descend on the bald dome of New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator H. Alexander Smith; this year New Jersey's 320-Ib. Democratic Representative T. James Tumulty made a big impression by posing in his underpants (TIME...
Opposed in principle to paying any taxes, Poujade & Co. demand: 1) abolition of the Polyvalents, the Finance Ministry's 376-man squad of special investigators, who have the power to descend on any enterprise and check its books; 2) repeal of penalties for tax evasion. Egged on by Poujade, tens of thousands of taxpayers, mostly in southern France, where his strength is greatest, have refused to make their first installment in payment of taxes on last year's income. About half the members of the National Assembly are flirting nervously with provincial Poujadist organizations...
...Since the bomb would explode in midair, it would be less likely to siphon up particles from the ground and therefore would produce a less dangerous fallout. The clouds from nuclear explosions that do not suck up particles from the earth travel long distances (sometimes around the world) and descend in such minute particles that they are seldom dangerous...
...reviewer is tempted to say that here is some of the best of Benchley-ana, if he were not afraid that the master would descend from among the happier angels, and write off a little piece called "--Anas, Their Use and Function...