Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THINK we have come down a rapid descent in business activity but we will saucer off now. We should bottom at midyear and have a fourth quarter turnup in the later months of the year...
...Philip. There must have seemed few less likely candidates for this job than the little Greek princeling who was born on the island of Corfu on June 10, 1921. Philip was the fifth child and only son of tall, monocled Prince Andrew, brother of King Constantine of Greece. By descent the family was not Greek, but belonged to the royal Danish House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, which the British, French and Russians had put on the throne at the end of the 19th century. Philip's mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria...
Converging on the Municipal Theater in Tulsa for joint concerts next month, as Oklahoma celebrates its 50th anniversary of statehood, were four internationally famed ballerinas, Qklahomans all, and all of Indian descent: Rosella Hightower of the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, Marjorie Tallchief of the Paris Opéra Ballet, her sister Maria Tallchief of the New York City Ballet, and Yvonne Chouteau of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...
Task Force. By Nazi standards, the Duke of Windsor might prove a useful tool. (Wasn't the royal family of German descent anyway?) The Germans saw Windsor as a king forced off his throne and sent into exile for love of a woman; and the thought must still rankle. Forced to flee from his French home, unwelcome in England, probably humiliated by the offer of the governorship of one of his younger brother's most insignificant West Indies colonies, the Duke of Windsor seemed a natural for the German cause. Hitler's Ribbentrop spared no effort...
...equal rights with the Arabs, and harking to the racial winds blowing over from Kenya, Zanzibar's black majority awoke to a new sense of its own importance. Once they had been divided-the Africans from the mainland, and the other blacks, who call themselves Shirazis and claim descent from Persian conquerors. The two factions came together under the leadership of 52-year-old Abeid Annane Karume, described by one local Briton as "the Ernie Bevin of the Zanzibar workingmen's movement." The son of a slave woman from Ruanda-Urandi, a longtime merchant seaman whose 22 years...