Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corker. In a Butte, Mont, suburb, where an influential segment of the population is of Irish descent, there is a shiny new, Kelly green fire engine...
...good ladies of Richmond adopted Edgar and his illegitimate sister Rosalie. Edgar fell to the childless wife of a tobacco and drygoods merchant, part-time slave trader and fulltime hypocrite named John Allan. No wonder Poe was addicted to changeling fantasies of noble descent. From being a backstage baby practically weaned on gin, he became "Master Allan," was educated at school in England and sent to the University of Virginia (after less than a year he left, in disgrace and in debt...
...preliminary research tools toward this project is the X-15 rocket-plane, which will meet its first tests in a month or so. It is designed to start its flights in the atmosphere, then shoot out of it to a probable height of 150 miles. Its descent on stubby wings will build experience for controlled returns from deeper space...
Hill used his skills as a skier and surgeon in climbing to an area near the top of the mountain after a ski patrol vehicle broke down and caring for the 12 injured children during the descent by toboggan. The youngsters had ignored warnings of dangerous ice in a roped-off area. Ten were hospitalized...
...possible, even pleasurable, to sit through four hours of solid Shakespeare. Yet the Old Vic Hamlet, which lasts a piffling three hours and twenty minutes, becomes for good stretches distinctly wearisome. Even the slow pace of Michael Benthall's direction is insufficient to account for the depth of its descent into tedium...