Word: descends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist Party Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, spiritual pollution includes "obscene, barbarous or reactionary materials, vulgar taste in artistic performances, indulgence in individualism" and statements that "run counter to the country's social system." Ostensibly aimed at those with a taste for capitalist pleasures, the purge has begun to descend on any artist or intellectual who seems reluctant to promote the orthodox Communist vision...
Well, next year--1981--finally rolled around, and the traditional spell of House football began to descend upon Harvard. The air was brisk, spirits soaring, and Lowell Coach Mike Pontrelli called his warriors together for a pre-season pep talk...
...Soviets claimed that the fighter pilots lowered their landing gear and flashed landing lights to signal the jetliner to descend, but were ignored. The co-pilot later denied that any signals were given. In any event, Soviet commanders, fully aware that it was a commercial plane, gave the order to attack. One interceptor then fired two heat-seeking missiles. The second struck an engine on the 707 and blew a hole in the fuselage, killing two passengers and injuring 13. Crippled but still under power, the jet plunged from 35,000 ft. to 3,000 ft. before leveling...
...exactly a year before 3,923 Democratic delegates will descend on San Francisco to choose their party's presidential nominee. But already the contenders are being ranked in a series of surveys and straw polls (some perhaps no more enlightening than a round of margaritas, but anxiously studied nonetheless). This month is filled with "cattle show" appearances before key political groups: the Sierra Club and the National Education Association a week ago, the National Women's Political Caucus this past weekend, the N.A.A.C.P. this week, the National Council of Senior Citizens later in the month. The fall will...
...Sparts descend on Anderson with all the vitriol of a permanently irrelevant sect. "Some of us, including the Spartacists," writes Tom Cowperthwaite, as if the two were somehow different, "have chosen not to wear every radical-sounding button on our chest (sic)..." But just sentences before, he accuses Anderson of hiding his politics to keep "his radical-chic image intact." Which is it. Tom-of-the-non-radical-chic-image? Alden Cavanagh, displaying the SYL's talent for historical discrimination, subtly equates Anderson's original letter with Hitler's Big Lie, and then oddly smears Anderson for having defended...