Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barnett Salmon-set up a teashop to give women shoppers a quiet, inexpensive place to lunch. The idea caught on, and the Lyons teashops, named for a relative and staffed by "Nippies" in ankle-length black dresses and frilly white caps, spread quickly. Twelve Salmon and Gluckstein descend ants now run the company under the leadership of Sir Samuel Salmon, 65, who likes to pop in unexpectedly to test the food (mass-produced but wholesome) and the service (usually snappy) in his restaurants...
...himself arrested on assault and battery charges for roughing up a Crawfordville Negro demonstrator. Hosea Williams, a Southern Negro leader directing the Crawfordville campaign, vowed that he would "call out every Negro child in every damned school in the state" in sympathy boycotts. Martin Luther King threatened to descend on the community, and there was brave talk of a march on Atlanta...
Officer John A. Breen of the University police noticed one of the three climbing a fire escape to the building's roof and notified City police. Breen reported seeing the man descend and join two others in a parked...
...together into space by a Titan IIIC rocket. Once they are in orbit, the spacemen will crawl through a hatch in the Gemini heat shield and enter the lab. For the return to earth, they will simply reverse the procedure, then detach from the 7½-ton canister and descend in the Gemini. Later on, other Gemini crews will take off from the earth, link up in space with the lab, and continue the work...
Unlike so many English celebrities who descend on the U.S. for a few weeks and condescend forever after, White brought with him an open mind, sharp eyes and immense erudition. His journal, conscientiously pieced together between lecture engagements and airport departures, is largely a testament to the diversity of the U.S. Whether describing a loggerhead shrike in North Carolina or an egghead racist in New Orleans, wandering over Beverly Hills ("reminds you of the environs of Florence and Fiesole") or Washington, D.C. ("the chalk-white city half in love with Time"), White displayed even in this disjointed, unedited chronicle...