Word: descending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essential criticism of Kissinger is that he has made American diplomacy too much of a one-man show. Says a Democratic adviser to several Presidents: "When you personalize foreign policy to the extent he has, you must be prepared to rise with success and descend with failure. You live by the sword and you die by the sword." Jun Tsunoda, who advises the Japanese government on U.S. affairs, makes the same point. "Diplomacy in today's complex world is too big a job for one man to handle in person...
Wander down to the street, finally find the new station. Descend into the depths of Boston. Orange train arrives, uneventfully. Uneventful trip to Washington Street. Uneventful crush pouring out of Filene's Bargain Basement. But then, at last, a welcome return to the comfortable familiarity of the Red Line and Harvard Square...
...specter of Leopold Bloom haunts this book... The easiest entry into its rhythms and movement is to recall the Bloomsday odyssey. I go out into the alien world, hard fearful, lonely. My afternoon stroll passes Sandymount strand: lustful, yearning, fleshy, I descend into a blasphemous bedeviled Nighttown.... and then I wander home...
...stopping the flow of blood. The doctor, his stethoscope pressed against the patient's forearm, knows that the flow has ceased when he can no longer hear the heartbeat. At that point, he slowly releases the air from the cuff. As pressure drops, the mercury column begins to descend; the cuff loosens, and blood begins to flow through the arm again. The doctor notes the level of the mercury column when he can once more hear the heartbeat. This reading is the systolic measurement. It is the higher of the two figures used in the measurement of blood pressure...
...descend, With well-taught feet: now shape...