Word: ascendance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonskiers cannot comprehend why otherwise rational people rise at dawn in order to buy a $10 ticket for the privilege of shivering in a slow-moving lift line to ascend slowly a hill that they will quickly slide down. Or to careen down a narrow, bumpy trail in a blinding snowstorm, watching for the hidden icy spot that could send them crashing into a tree trunk. The explanation is simple. Skiing is a feast for all the senses. It promises exhilaration, fresh air and muscle-taxing exercise; an hour of downhill skiing can burn up as many as 500 calories...
...Apollo's low-pressure (5 Ibs. p.s.i.) atmosphere of pure oxygen.* If they did not stop in the chamber on the way from Soyuz into Apollo, spacemen would get the bends-the sometimes fatal buildup of nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream that afflicts deep-sea divers when they ascend too rapidly from the high-pressure depths...
...advertised and offered in a dozen cities by a new mystical movement: the New York-based Arica Institute in America, Inc. By following the mental and physical regime prescribed by Arica, trainees are told, they may well "regain the Essential Self," achieve "total serenity" and "unity with emptiness," and ascend to a beatific level of consciousness arcanely called "the Permanent...
...ascend into the hill of earthly...
Once upon a time, as Elon tells his disillusioned story, the early Zionists (circa 1882) were "secular rabbis of a new faith of redemption." The founders of modern Israel called themselves olim: pilgrims, "those who ascend." Generally, they were mystics with a "terrible sincerity," an "almost inhuman sense of rectitude," and "not a glimmer of doubt...