Word: descending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect a massive wave of disease to descend on hospitals, health care services, and society. What I forsee happening is an increasing sense of panic in the general population," Haseltine said...
Sixteen rugby squads will descend on Cambridge this weekend to participate in the two-day extravaganza at Soldiers Field, which will feature some of the top teams in the East--among them Dartmouth, Southern Connecticut, Brown and Babson...
...midst of freshmen's first midterm exams, about 1000 parents from all over the world will descend upon Harvard today to see what their sons and daughters have been up to since leaving home last month...
Aside from the fact that no two rooms have the same dimensions, the Sackler has a few other oddities. Some of its current novelties include the museum's innovative entrance. Breaking with traditional museum architecture, Stirling designed an entrance where visitors descend to glass doors rather than walk up a grand series of steps. This reversal enables the third gallery level of the Sackler to reach the same height as the Fogg's second floor level...
...been billed as the largest gathering of world leaders in history. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the United Nations, heads of state or government have begun to descend on New York City; at least 90 will have called before the end of October. They may or may not further the cause of world peace in a forum that has failed to live up to its impossibly dreamy promise as arbiter of global disputes. But the assembled dignitaries will surely provide a rich spectacle of diplomatic pomp and a torrent of high- minded rhetoric, not to mention traffic jams that...