Word: descending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Associate Dean Watson recently gave the group permission to circulate a petition, so tomorrow and Friday hordes of Eisenhower men will descend on House dining rooms to set up the usual tables and start collecting signatures...
...early novels. Slater wants a raid even if it means the death of Bullivant and the 23rd Corps-just so long as he gets his scoop. He bullies Bullivant into bullying the partisans. to agree to fight. His scoop is ruined when, in a farcical scene, 19 other newspapermen descend on the camp to cover the raid. Comic fiasco turns to tragedy: the partisans attack, only to suffer casualties from the Allies, who have in the meantime taken over the area. Men have died needlessly because of Slater's viciousness and Bullivant's weakness...
...through the latest Tyrone Power Technicolor epic, this reviewer waited eagerly for that standard but entertaining scene where four thousand howling savages descend (at $25 an hour) on the hero's intrepid little band of one hundred (fifteen of whom are wounded in the left shoulder). It never came, and that's just about the trouble with "Captain from Castile"; it never quite comes off. Every scene seems to lead inevitably to a gigantic battle in the final reel, but all suddenly comes to naught as Mr. Power and friends march off into a sunset fadeout...
Swanny's Good Food has been doing a rush business between 12 and 2 o'clock. Undergraduates descend on the establishment at midnight and, ignoring juke box and waitresses, gobble a snack and leave. Joe, who forgot his last name years ago, waxed philosophical over the good business with "students can't live on print alone, and I'm glad they...
...been and is a great and ancient land, a wellspring and tabernacle of some of the most inspired conceptions of the divine will in man which man has ever dreamed of; and more lately a fount of brotherhood and, among the nations, a preacher of peace. If India could descend to the depths, it could also look up to moral Himalayas. Its recent sin was great, but not unique, especially not unique in origin. It sprang from Kali, from the dark and universal fear which rests in the slime on the blind sea-bottom of biology...