Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deep in snow,* down the 1,000-meter course. At each of the 59 "gates," the flag-decked poles marking the obligatory turning points, Andy paused and made mental calculations. She carefully gauged each hillock and bump, guessed at her racing speed, and mentally mapped a line of descent to follow. At the bottom she rested, then trudged back up the course, stopping again at each gate to review and correct her calculations. She was adding her own figuring to the slalom racer's standard formula-"run it high and inside...
...easy grace of a prima ballerina. As usual, she looked as if she were loafing, even as she made a final flick with her ski pole to break the electric-eye photo timer at the finish. But the knowing crowd, recognizing speed when they saw it, cheered her effortless descent, cheered again as she fell into the waiting arms of her husband, U.S. Skier Dave Lawrence. When Andy's time was announced (2:06.8), even Andy was surprised. "Gee, that's good. I didn't think I was going that fast...
...I.R.O. went out of business, leaving the 46,000 behind as a legacy to a nation that does not know what to do with them. Before these unwanted D.P.s-nearly all Slavs, almost no Jews-stretched a black future: mere charity subsistence from the West German government, and a gradual descent from misery to despair...
Cast as the girl's haughty father, who turns incongruously into a sentimental old dear, Clifton (Belvedere) Webb takes another sizable stride in his descent from actor to movie type. Elopement contains one passably good visual gag: a modern reclining chair that slowly tips its occupant upside down. But the film is so hard up for comic ideas that it has to use the same gag twice...
According to Editor Pine, only three British families can prove descent through the male line from the Saxons who invaded Britain in the 5th Century. These are the Ardens (one was Shakespeare's mother), the Berkeleys and the Swintons. And only three can prove male descent from the Companions of William the Conqueror in 1066: Malet (or Mallet or Mellat), Giffard, and De Marris. Even King George VI's Saxon descent is through the female line; about 100,000 living Britons can claim legitimate descent from such royal ancestry. Pine calls Edward III (1312-77) the crossroads...