Word: descending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then, descend on Harvard Square to open a checking account. Try the NOW account option. Find out what NOW stands for, in the never ending pursuit of useless knowledge. Buy a frisbee and four Harvard t-shirts at the Coop. Purchase lunch at Elsies, (where John F. Kennedy '40 used to eat--you have a heritage to live up to now) and take it back to the steps of Widener, where you can eat your first meal at Harvard by flouting the rule that it's gauche to be reverent...
...often that college professors descend from their ivory towers to come to the defense of what some consider pornography. But testimony from academics, including two from Harvard, played a major role in Saturday's Boston Municipal Court ruling that the film "Caligula" is not legally obscene...
...customs officials descend on one's luggage in clusters. Literary material is especially scrutinized ... books opened and the officials settle down to read, often one looking over the other's shoulder, searching for key words to pop out, since their ability to read English is limited. A copy of Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station, with its uncompromising portrait of Lenin, was flipped through without incident, but a yellow legal pad on which I had written "KGB -neat shoes"-a reference to being able to spot a secret-service agent by his spruced-up footwear-caused...
...were out foraging for food. Like their primate cousins in the forest, they usually swung gracefully from limb to limb searching out nuts, fruits and berries. But this day was different. A fierce rainstorm had knocked all their favorites off the branches, and the Ramas, alas, were forced to descend from the trees to find something...
...three years since that victory party, the Rebel forces have somehow wound up hiding from a revitalized Empire on the planet Hoth, which is nothing more than an oversized ice cube. Darth Vader and the Empire quickly discover the Rebellion's snow hideout and descend upon the planet with a force of huge, camel-like tanks...