Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over before the Sunday breakfast invasion begins. Sunday mornings are all family trade, when mothers treat themselves to a big breakfast they don't have to cook. One astute chain operator studied possible locations in Yonkers, N.Y., finally built opposite a Roman Catholic church, from which starving worshipers "descend like locusts" after morning Mass...
...terraces and gardens; all interior spaces will be air-conditioned, and circulation between levels will be by elevators, escalators or stairs enclosed in glass kiosks. At the north end, two cantilevered buildings rise to break the otherwise static skyline; at the south end, a series of terraced "hanging gardens" descend from the grade to Panther Hollow Lake, a boating and skating pond below. The whole has been described as a 150-story building "resting on its side...
...high-speed turnpike that cuts like a six-lane ribbon across a five-mile stretch near Newark Airport, motorist are conscious of only one thing: the area stinks from industrial chimneys. But that is merely a discomfort. Far more dangerous is the fact that fog can and does descend upon the marshy meadowlands along the turnpike. To warn motorists, New Jersey has spent some $300,000 on fog horns, fog lights, etc. But nothing seems to work. Early one morning last week, the lethal soup swirled in. Warning signs flashed futilely. Samuel Baker, of Phillipsburg, N.J., slowed his Volkswagen...
...Duomo, they inquire: "Until what time do the stores remain open here?" In their "plastic garments," they occur in Ireland, where they say, "Pourdon me," and ask nuns to close a train window. Nor is England's most hallowed ground safe from the profane American. "Although they descend from people who could not succeed in Europe and furiously shook its dust from their feet, they have a sentimental feeling for ancestors. They even look for them in England, nurturing a strange belief that in some country churchyard Hoggefeller and Potemkine lie dust to dust with Hogward and Potkin...
...considering the freeway in relation to the landscape, the questions are: "Does it flow along the river smoothly, hug the slope naturally, climb the hill in a convincing way? Does it grasp the mountain firmly, jump the valley decisively? Or does it, on the contrary, climb a ridge needlessly, descend into a valley thoughtlessly, violate a lake brutally, cut up the landscape violently? Or is it simply trite...