Word: descendants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lots more Pulitzers descend on Bailyn...
Next the miners descend in an elevator to the mine, far below the surface. There they file into a tiny rail car for the ride to the mine face, the wall of solid coal at the end of the tunnel where the coal is actually extracted. During the four-mile journey, the beams from the lamps on the miners' hats bore through the darkness, picking up eerie, abandoned passageways, diggings of another day. The foreman carries a small naphtha lamp; if the lamp's flame flares up, it indicates the presence of flammable methane gas and the threat...
Everywhere, jobs are harder and harder to come by. "When something opens up, we all descend like locusts on the company that's hiring," says Bostonian Judy Knight, who lost her job as a staff producer with Atlantic Records last December. "The company ends up getting the pick of the best." When 100 jobs opened recently for firemen in Los Angeles, 1,000 applicants showed...
Since that day in mid-March, Kinshasa has been agog. Though initial predictions that 30,000 foreign visitors would descend on the ill-equipped capital have proved far too optimistic, fight preparations are still elaborate. Thousands of precooked frozen meals have been flown in. As le super combat approaches in the former Belgian Congo, the weed-infested median along Kinshasa's main boulevard has suddenly blossomed with flowers; new street lights have been installed and virtually every building in town has been scrubbed or painted...
...week that a "number" of researchers--none of whom he would name--had offered to testify for the defense, and that as a result the defense's stance on medical ethics would be "formidable and considerable." The motions do imply, however, that the lawyers expect the trial debate to descend into an argument over the abortion issue--and they are ready for such a confrontation...