Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Premier Pattullo was challenged to resign and stand in a by-election on the unemployment issue, the sit-downers crossed Burrard Inlet by boat, hitchhiked or rode the rods to descend on the dignified, heavily policed little capital city of Victoria, on the southeast tip of Vancouver Island...
...lives, reckon that as long as life lasts will be many a year for the Hon. Joseph Buffington. Though he no longer sleeps in summer in a pup tent on the Bellevue-Stratford's roof-as he did in his gay seventies-he still spurns an elevator to descend from his ninth-floor rooms to the street. Neighbors who used to complain about his bouncing a medicine ball against the wall, he now outwits by merely tossing it in the air. Under his bed he keeps a rowing machine, used daily. And every morning he stretches himself, "just like...
Suddenly a squall struck the party. Rare air, steeps, ice are hazards climbers expect to overcome, but blizzards and high wind are hazards they run away from. Leader Joe Leuthold at once gave the order to descend. The wind was so sharp the Mazamas had to back down the draw. Ice crusted their goggles; sleet froze on their faces and clothes. After the party had reached the base of the chute, they broke strings, reassembled, continued the descent. Some of them were not dressed warmly enough for the extreme cold...
...with a few more strikes of short or long duration starting daily, it occurred to the thoroughly aware and alarmed Socialist Premier that War veterans might try to resolve the situation by turning his Cabinet out by violence. In his newspaper Le Populaire he stirringly asked them not to "descend into the streets...
...other hand, should the board find a possibility of unfair labor practice at Harvard, a swarm of State investigators will descend on College grounds to uncover the true story of the so-called "inside" union...