Word: descend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime public sentiment can be stirred and public thinking informed only by something unfavorably known as "propaganda," the program was propaganda. Yet its theatrics, its sentimentality, its moments of bad taste were not products of war but of imperfect art. It did not descend to cheap and spurious jingoism. And it told a truth in telling, out of the mouths of the imagined People, why and when the Bill of Rights was written, what it says, and what it means as an American Charter promising no deprivation of life or property except by due process of law-a conception notably...
...Nanny," as the famous movie star is known affectionately to her Harvard public, was elected an honorary editor of the literary publication early this fall, and threatened at that time to descend on Cambridge. Later a report was spread that she would not arrive...
Prevented from bathing by a ghastly South Hadley drought a thousand comely if dirty Mount Holyoke co-eds are expected to descend on Cambridge this week to accept the invitation proffered by the CRIMSON last night to "Share Our Showers...
...dare wait to warm up the engine. However, the take-off's only flaw was the lopping of some branches off a few trees. Over the Channel they climbed to 9,000 feet but the old crate's engine began to conk out, and they had to descend to about 1,300 feet...
Colonel Philibert Collet's anti-Vichy Circassians, who descend from the Russians that went from the Caucasus to Turkey 80 years ago, found themselves blazing away at a detachment of fellow Circassians. After an exchange of appropriate Circassian signals, the Vichy Circassians came forth and fell on colorful Colonel Collet's Circassians' necks. Two bodies of Foreign Legionnaires drew beads on each other, but this mistake, too, was soon put right. After four days Kisswe capitulated...