Word: descends
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...distinct emotion. One is in love; one is at war. To get that point across a director must give us, infant fashion, a moment-to-moment account of the emotion of everyone on stage, Giggles must end in sucked-in breaths of anguish and operatic voices must descend into fiish market bawl. Everyone on the stage last night seemed to have understood this perfectly, and if they did it is because the director understood it first...
...move the gear by whipping the plane's nose up and down, ground engineers pored over charts in order to pinpoint the exact cause of the trouble. They concluded that a short circuit had snarled the computer, which was programmed to allow the landing gear to rise and descend only when the wheel-cavity doors were fully open. Control of the gear thus had to be removed from the computer. By causing a second short circuit, ground engineers advised, the pilots might manage to circumvent the computer and disengage the landing gear from the cockpit...
...acquaintance with the scalp-hunting export of "Americanism" via some missionaries, both religious and political, makes it clear what is so "enigmatic," "devious" and "dangerous" about Thich Tri Quang: he cannot be bought. America will do well to descend from "on top" and get behind him. You say he is "the true native species." How true! Decades of suffering distill the true essence...
...drowsy Friday morning in Honolulu when the news clattered in over wire-service tickers. Within 32 hours, President Johnson and a small army of "peace warriors" would descend on the island for a whirlwind summit conference with the leaders of South Viet Nam. Hordes of communications, security and transportation experts were already on the way, to be followed by nearly half the U.S. Cabinet, 125 other American and Vietnamese officials, two dozen Secret Service men, 354 newsmen. For Hawaiians, it was to prove the most harrowing ordeal since Maunaloa last blew...
Each spring, two Harvard-Radcliffee students descend the Canyon walls to spend three months in Supai. Usually the students have never been farther west than Pittsburgh. The West, they think, must be no more complex than jostling down a narrow trail on a donkey piled with gear, or pulling catfish out of the Colorado River above the rapids...