Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from a Statler dance, a political rally or a premiere movie, to the Bali dance routine Chief Pearson puts us through on a Monday morning, but we must descend at last. At least that's the theory of our very dear pharmacists' male friend (the eye specialists you know). In his rotund manner, thrusting, the creosote gun down our throat he says "You've danced, now pay the piper" and pulls the trigger...
...them: a baby-washer made of revolving stands, one for the baby, the other carrying soap, sponge and nailbrush; the baby was washed simply by revolving the stands in opposite directions. Another convenience was a bedroom directly over a dining room so rigged that the owner could descend through the floor into a dining chair while, simultaneously, the cover over the bacon & eggs ascended to the ceiling...
Iron mines had either been blown up or flooded. In the old Artem mine, 500 Russian workers hid. When the Germans discovered the hideout, they flung hand grenades in but would not descend. Moscow said another mine was the common grave of 17,000 executed civilians...
...talks were promising. The plans must be precise. To the U.S. soldiers and to the people the results of the Sphinx Conference in Cairo, and the Teheran meeting, could only mean that ahead was war in deadliest earnest. "From west and south" millions of American soldiers must descend upon the continent, their lives staked against the hope of a better world. Many will never return...
...week's end the rumors subsided: maybe the war would go on for a while after all. But this week opened with a new wave of selling: maybe, on the other hand, unprosperous peace would soon descend on the land...