Word: descendance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...illusions that the millenium will soon descend on Meridian or Jackson or Batesville. At best, within a reasonable number of years, there will be a stalemate of mutual respect. Only then will the longer process of assimilation and acculturation take place...
Colonel Fontenele was only warming up. When he learned that parking violaters were escaping before the tow trucks arrived, he sent his men through downtown Rio to descend on the front tires of illegally parked cars, unscrew the valves-and pffft! "Vandalism," cried Rio papers in shocked unison, quoting eminent jurists' opinions that "Operation Pffft!" was illegal. "This campaign will continue until motorists begin to cooperate with the authorities," answered Fontenele...
MEXICO. With a little luck, almost any time of the day you will be able to catch five Mexicans shinnying up a skinny 114-ft. pole. One dances while his four companions, tied to ropes wrapped around the pole, drop head first and descend in dizzying, accelerating circles as the ropes unwind, righting themselves just in time to land feet first on the pavement...
Since pornography is now available at every neighborhood bookshop and drugstore, the idea of satirizing the pornographic novel was bound to occur to someone. If done with Swiftian skill, it could be defended on moral as well as literary grounds, even though it could easily descend to the level of a vice crusader's wet-lipped discourse on the evils of vice...
Triumphant Catalogue. Elle does not so much reflect fashion as decree it. That sudden hemline plunge that Dior called the New Look did not descend from the salons to the boulevards until Hélène had endorsed it in the pages of her magazine. The parfum house of Chanel, which folded its fashion line in 1940, returned to eminence in 1956 via the same route. "Coco would eventually have launched herself," says Mme. Lazareff modestly, "but we first explained why it wasn't obvious how chic she is." "Everything that goes into the magazine," says Helene Lazareff...