Word: descent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill Casey used his brake for the first time, and the sled ground to a stop, about a city block past the finish line. They made the descent three times more before they pinned down the 1949 four-man bobsled championship. Average time: 1:13.32. Average speed: 46.8 m.p.h. Afterwards, Benham's No. 3 man, Jim Atkinson, felt his face and grinned: "Boy, was that wind cold." Somebody remarked: "It's all over but the drinking." Said Driver Benham: "I haven't had a drink in a long time . . . you can't drink and drive...
Actually, for all his old-worldliness, Medina was raised in Brooklyn, was called a "greaser" at public school because his father was Mexican (his mother is a D.A.R. of Dutch descent). He made the water-polo team and Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton, and was earning $100,000 a year as a lawyer before President Truman appointed him to the federal bench...
...Pieces of Underwear. Mindszenty's opposition to the Nazis made him a national figure. He had taken the uphill way again. He preached against the Nazis' "new paganism." When the Nazis occupied Hungary, many Hungarians of German descent dropped their Magyarized names and started using their old German ones again. Tough Father Joseph Pehm did the contrary. He dropped his German name and took a Hungarian one, derived from his native village-Mindszenty...
...able-bodied men and girls to forced service in their armies. But the imagination cannot picture the desolation that this hit-and-run fighting leaves behind it . . . Everywhere, the atmosphere was heavy with suspense. In such fearful quiet must the early settlers in the West have waited the descent of the Indians...
...wall Matisse plans a picture of St. Dominic, twice life size, and beside him the Virgin and Child in a field of stars. The east wall will be more ambitious than anything Matisse ever tried, combining all 14 Stations of the Cross-from the Condemnation by Pilate to the Descent from the Cross-in a mounting S-curve of pictures. Since Matisse cannot work for long on his feet, he will be unable to paint the pictures on the walls directly, plans to do them on tile which will afterward be baked and placed in position. He hopes that...