Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three planes had obviously followed their leader in. But there was no explanation of what led Hodge, a World War II and Korea veteran (104 missions, three Jap planes) with 1,000 hours' time in Thunderjets, to fly into the ground. The planes were on a gentle descent when they plowed across the scrub oak and piney woods. Instrument-approach procedure called for them at that point to be at 11,000 ft. Instead, they were at 1,100-which is ground level 25 miles northeast of Atlanta...
Lindbergh ax-jumped on to the ice chute to try to grab him, but Hopf's body flashed by. It left a trail of blood for 800 feet. Hopf was still breathing when they reached him. Lindbergh eased Hopf on to lashed skis for the tortuous descent...
Corder: I'm glad you're interested in Africa. You know we have 15 million people of African descent here in this country...
...declares that "research is the core of our program." The Center's list of projects is endless; it is currently studying the significance of alcohol in criminal behavior of various types, the role of alcohol as a medicine for heart and emotional disturbances, drinking patterns of Americans of Italian descent, and the histories of patients in alcoholism clinics...
Long before Darwin made the same claim for the whole human race, the fierce Dafia tribesmen of India's northeast frontier were proudly claiming descent from monkeys. To prove it, they wore false tails, swung happily among tree branches, screeched wildly in apelike imitation of Kipling's Bandar-log and grubbed under stones and logs for beetles which they ate whole and kicking...