Word: descend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British know well the famines that follow in South and East Africa, Egypt and Palestine when the long-winged, omnivorous grasshoppers regularly descend on the lands. One locust invasion of Kenya did ?300,000 worth of crop damage. They know that the creeping locust hordes have actually slushed trucks and even trains to a stop with the muck of their billion-bodied mass. One mass of locusts crossing the Red Sea covered an area of 2,000 sq. mi. Said Britain's Russian-born entomologist, Boris Petrovich Uvarov, locust-control authority and a chief organizer of the new campaign...
...TIME, Sept. 28) on the inadvisability of using rubber panties as a gas mask was very thorough and correct except for one thing. During a gas attack, he advocates staying indoors and lying on the floor with head in arms. Since all war gases are heavier than air they descend to the lowest level possible, and in this case the lowest level in the room is the floor. It would seem that a better position would be to sit or stand in the room. STEPHEN E. ULRICH 1st Lieut., C.W.S. Chicago Chemical Warfare Procurement District War Department Chicago...
Final dove descend...
...grand stage for this humanized history is just the Minivers' staircase, with its grandfather clock that is always a bit slow. It means Home, and the camera, by focusing on it, never lets you forget it. First to descend is Young Toby Miniver, who clumps down with his cat under his arm, shouts to his father with understandable urgency: "I can't stop, Daddy; Napoleon wants to throw up." Last to ascend is Vin, the R.A.F. pursuit pilot. The enemy and death pass him by in battle but kill his young bride (Teresa Wright) at home. He realizes...
...greatest danger is that, in defeating the gangsters in control of Germany and Japan, we descend to their level of bestiality. . . . Not only does hate hurt the hater more than the one hated, but it is an unnecessary element in the fighting spirit...