Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students are often limited to just one sandwich at a time at lunch, "because the kitchen just cannot get enough food together at one time to feed the mobs that descend after the 12 and 1 o'clock class breaks," she noted...
...plane, lashed the ocean below into scudding foam. The pilot. Captain Philip Watts, radioed Sola, reported. "I can't see a thing." and said that he would make an instrument letdown. He made one futile pass, headed back out to sea to start another approach. "Cleared to descend to 1,400 feet." advised the Sola tower. There was no reply. Next morning, after an all-night sea and air search, the fire-gutted wreckage of "Papa Mike" was found by a farmer on the peak of 1,730-ft. Holte Heia mountain. Strewn across the mountain in their blazers...
...religion cannot illuminate these three dark areas of modern life, said Dean Miller, "it should then in decency get out of the way so that men will not be tripped up by its frumpery or fooled by its solemnity. There is serious work to be done, lest the world descend into darkness deeper than we have ever known before...
Some of the children's programs in themselves produce small armies from the metropolitan area. Over 1,200 youngsters, for example, in late April each year, descend on the University for PBH Kids...
...Flex Wing has no conventional control surfaces. Its pilot and 100-h.p. engine hang well below the kitelike wing, and control is accomplished by tilting the wing with respect to the heavy, low-hanging engine. If the leading point of the wing is lowered, the Flex Wing tends to descend. When the wing is tilted to the side, the Flex Wing banks and turns...