Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everything was handled by the "K" system, the fabulous new Air Force apparatus that automatically navigates, flies the plane and releases the bomb. From a sounding device came a steady hum. At the precise moment when the "K" system would have released a real bomb, the humming stopped (the descent trajectory of the simulated bomb was plotted for official scoring purposes by electronic equipment on the ground...
Beyond Significance. "Edith Stein's entry into Carmel," said her prioress, "was, in fact, a descent from the height of a brilliant career into the depths of insignificance." In the depths of insignificance, Edith Stein changed. She who had often been cool and aloof found herself wearing a red wig and performing a Chaucerian skit during a convent entertainment; she who had been intolerant of weakness learned charity by falling asleep during meditation. In time, says Author Graef, "Edith Stein became a perfectly harmonious spiritual personality...
...might mean missing the moon altogether. For the moon's gravitational pull to take effect, the spaceship must first exactly match the moon's 2,278-m.p.h. speed, then slow down for a hazardous, involuntary landing. Too many space enthusiasts, says Porter, assume that the descent on the moon would be "a simple . . . perfect three-point landing...
...Editor Reese was not intimidated. She continued to play stories on the five children of Orange Picker Allan Platt (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954) who were ousted from a white school in Mount Dora on the ground that they were Negroes, although they claimed to be of Irish-Indian descent.* Last week Editor Reese was facing a new kind of challenge. An opposition weekly, the Mount Dora Herald, had been started with the encouragement of residents who find the Topic too true to be good. Its owner: Thomas P. Dwyer, onetime Chicago Hearst reporter who has been Midwest sales and advertising...
...getting nowhere. But the Korean truce hurt the anti-Communist cause in Asia; the damage was compounded by the failure in Indo-China. The Geneva agreement, giving much of Viet Nam to the Reds, marked the low point of anti-Communism in Asia. Some observers thought that the descent continued with Eisenhower's expressed willingness to negotiate a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. The President believed that this move was important in reinforcing the U.S. world reputation as a peace-pursuing nation. Despite the present calm, the U.S. still faces a very dangerous Asian situation...