Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vanishing Torrent. Dripping wet from the water trickling down the chimney's walls and shivering with cold, Lépineux was brought to the surface three hours and 40 minutes later. During the descent, the spinning cable had made the walls seem to revolve so fast in the light of his head lamp that he had almost been sick. But once on the bottom, he had felt up to a little exploring...
Straight Down. By last week preparations were completed. Discoverer Lépineux had the traditional right to make the first descent. He buckled on his parachute harness, put a steel helmet over his woolen cap, adjusted his miner's head lamp and his altimeter, hooked his harness to the cable of the windlass and, after a quick handshake all around, stepped off into the void...
Genealogy experts in London traced two new branches which relate Queen Elizabeth to William Shakespeare. The Queen, it seems, is 18th in descent from one Mary Whalesborough, sister of Shakespeare's great-great-great-grandmother; the Queen is also 17th in descent from one John Belknap, brother of Shakespeare's great-great-great-great-grandmother. Meanwhile at Sandringham, the Queen joined King George VI in a garden party for members of the National Federation of the Blind. The King, who has canceled all public engagements since his recent illness, leaned on a shepherd's staff and posed...
Sherman, son of a New Hampshire schoolmaster, came from a family of fighters; the Shermans, tracing their descent back to John and Priscilla Alden, fought with the colonists against the Dutch, went with Benedict Arnold to Quebec. A pleasant, neat man with an air of cool detachment, Forrest Sherman lacked the flamboyant quality that makes for a great leader of men. But he was a great planner, a great negotiator "You can't get good marks if you're popular," he once told his sister. He had few close friends, but his admirers were legion...
...white-robed old man with piercing eyes and a soldierly bearing walked across the compound of the Mosque of the Rock, believed by the faithful to enclose the rock from which the Prophet Mohamed rode to heaven on a white steed. King Abdullah of Jordan, who traces his descent from the Prophet himself, was making his weekly visit to the shrine to honor the Prophet and the memory of his own father, Hussein, onetime Sherif of Mecca (Custodian of the Holy Places) and King of the Hejaz, whose bones lie buried there. Abdullah, right hand relaxed on the hilt...