Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reno's life from that day forward was a dismal descent into dishonor...
Casting about for a paisan whose image and reputation were untouchable, the year-old American-Italian Anti-Defamation League reached into the pack and pulled out Frank Sinatra, 51, to be its national chairman in a campaign to convince the nation that not everyone of Italian descent is a capo mafioso. "It is an honor," said Frank in Miami Beach, where he is shooting a gangster flick called Tony Rome. "To me, any type of discrimination is anti-American...
...doctrine of the Trinity is not even mentioned in the Bible -- which he called a "mishmash." The doctrine was thought up by a group of early Greek bishops, and we are asked to believe it on the Church's authority, he said. Moreover, if the doctrine of Christ's descent into hell were part of some primitive religion, he said, we would call it nonsense...
...British have always been stuffy about race, but the stuffiness has grown with the influx in recent years of some 625,000 immigrants. Whether a man is a blue-black African, a coffee-colored Jamaican, an Aryan Pakistani or even a Cypriot of Greek descent, he is considered "colored" in Britain - and almost invariably discriminated against. Two years ago Parliament passed a halfhearted race-relations act forbidding discrimination in hotels, restaurants, theaters and public transport, but the law is so impossible to enforce that no one has yet been convicted of breaking it. Moreover, it makes no attempt...
...pound note was overlooked, and the only injury was suffered by a locomotive engineer who proved unexpectedly belligerent; the foolish, post-heist swaggering of the thieves; the burial of the loot in such out-of-the-way places as a church graveyard; Scotland Yard's massive descent upon the scent. At film's end, a voice ominously booms the warning that some of the robbers are still at large, plotting to spring their jailed associates...