Word: descent
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...position. It is a fine touch in this highly ritualistic play that the King and the Lord Marshal (penetratingly projected by Robert Lumish) actually sing some of their lines here as though running through a formulaic and time-honored chant. An onstage sidedrummer accompanies the King's staircase descent and ascent...
...varied by month and day according to states' whims. Armistice Day, first pegged to Nov. 11 as the date of the World War I armistice, lost its original meaning when it was converted to Veterans Day to commemorate the end of all U.S. wars. Even patriots of Italian descent admitted that the day, Oct. 12, on which Columbus "discovered America"-actually the British Bahamas-could be considered flexible. It derives from the old Julian calendar and would be Oct. 23 in the new. Similarly, Washington's birthday was originally recorded as Feb. 11, since the old-style calendar...
...another rare descent from his studied aloofness, De Gaulle had a "perroquet," or direct-line amplifier, linked up from the National Assembly to his palace office so that he could hear the debate. It was worth hearing; so long impotent, the Deputies finally had a platform, and some used it well. One was Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Gaullist Finance Minister and leader of the 43-member Independent Republicans, who are allied with the Gaullists. As he rose to speak, he glanced at the ornate skylight through which flooded the late-afternoon rays of the spring sun. "Never...
Rumanians have long had a sort of national crush on France. Though surrounded by Slavs, they claim direct descent from the Roman colonizers to whom they owe their Latin character...
NASA has yet to decide whether or not it will fly a manned circumlunar orbit before attempting to land a man on the moon. Some NASA officials believe that such a preparatory flight would improve the chances for a trouble-free descent to the lunar surface. Others oppose it. Once an Apollo is in orbit around the moon with all its equipment functioning, runs the argument, why not go for broke...