Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With very few exceptions, Americans cannot accurately lay claim to unmixed descent, particularly many born since the great flood of immigration during the latter iSoos. But the product of such dilutions of the earlier bloodstreams of Northern Europe surely cannot all have concentrated above the Mason-Dixon Line, and must have gravitated down as well as out and upward. On the other hand, miscegenation in the South was no mere rumor. The masters of the great plantations and farms, and their menfolk generally were not insusceptible to the charms of the better-favored females in the slave quarters. Were these...
...Five Spanish-American citizens of Winslow, Ariz. (pop. 6,500) complained in federal court that people of Mexican or Latin descent are permitted use of the town swimming pool on Wednesdays only, while "Anglos" are allowed to swim on the other six days of the week. The pool's water, they added, is always changed on Thursday...
...carefully detailed. Three well-equipped boats bobbed around like corks in the turbulent Gulf Stream off Miami at the 100-fathom mark. One boat carried Root and seven other skin-diving friends who planned to station themselves at various depths along the 1/16 -in steel strand that marked the descent. Standing by for possible rescue work was a Coast Guard cutter. In the third boat was an oceanographer of the University of Miami's marine laboratories.The oceanographer would trace Root's descent with echo sounding gear, just to make the record official. As an unofficial measure. Root planned...
...craft storm-warning flags were being whipped by 25-knot gusts when one of the divers went over the side to test conditions several fathoms down. His report: "It's bad down there. I had a hell of a time getting back." Root was urged to postpone his descent. Placidly munching cookies and drinking coffee while almost everybody else, was seasick, Root refused to change his plans: "No, I'm itchy about it now. And the more you wait, the more static builds up. It won't be rough down below...
...Going." Then Root strapped on his 65 lbs. of equipment: oversize rubber foot flippers, two cylinders with enough oxygen (under 2,200 lbs. pressure) to last 25 minutes at 400 ft., and two lead weights, a six-pounder to neutralize his own buoyancy, a three-pounder to aid the descent. Then, with a cheery "It's time I got going," Root donned his face mask and slipped over the side...