Word: descending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shrink aspects of the nuclear debate to human dimensions. It employs frequent analogies--to duels, track meets, football games, horses, porcupines and staircases--and even includes a "checklist of arms control proposals" that is reminiscent of nothing so much as a Topps baseball card. But even it must descend into nuclear complexity, and sometimes it fails to emerge. Its analogies to the ancient Greeks are often apt, but are they accessible to a public that has not taken...
...exclude from responsibility those persons who weren't directly involved or don't descend from persons who were involved in slavery and racial segregation, shouldn't they also be excluded from the more benign developments in which they weren't involved? I wonder if they would like to be excluded from the pure food laws, the child labor laws, the public schools, collective bargaining. Social Security, etc.? David L. Evans Evans is Harvard's Senior Admissions Officer...
...City publishing company is considering a WallWalkers children's book. Hakuta euphorically envisions a WallWalkers Olympics. His "dream," he says, is to have 5,000 WallWalkers take part in a race down Manhattan's World Trade Center. Or he could make a King Kong-size monster to descend the Empire State Building...
...Taylor (Jeffrey DeMunn) and Harold (Jay Patterson) have reached the summit of K2. At 28,250 ft., this Himalayan peak is the second highest mountain in the world, topped only by Everest. On the way down, Harold lost his footing and suffered a critical leg wound. Only Taylor can descend for help. He is short 120 ft. of much needed rope, having left it at the last stopping place. He climbs the sheer wall three times to secure it. It is a feat of hair-raising tension that earns DeMunn spontaneous applause for his endeavors. But nature is not mocked...
Eight thousand miles away, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher herself standing on shifting political soil, drew Britannia's rustling sword from its scabbard and let a righteous charge in the name of self-determination that lifted her national prestige to a level from which it has yet to substantially descend...