Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal war on poverty is being used "to suffocate militant leadership that might threaten the Establishment." Such leadership among the poor themselves, says Alinsky, is their only real solution, and he incites it, as he acknowledges, by "rubbing raw the sores of discontent." Last week, following Alinsky's descent on Kansas City, the Missouri metropolis was sore all over. "Never in the 35 years that I have lived here," said one resident, "have I seen this town so torn by an issue...
Letting down in fogbound St. Louis, See overshot the runway on his first pass, went into a tight turn to begin a new approach. "Final ILS 24," he radioed the tower-meaning that he aimed to make an Instrument Landing System descent on runway 24. Inexplicably, he continued his turn. Just then, some witnesses heard a loud whooph!-possibly indicating an engine flameout. Others reported hearing an explosion...
Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, a Hawaiian of Japanese descent who lives in Maryland when Congress is in session, protested that half of the population of Hawaii would be considered "impure" in the eyes of Maryland. The law, he added, would make "interesting reading in many parts of Southeast Asia where we talk about democracy...
...Luna 9's instrumented, picture-taking payload stood only 2 ft. high and weighed a mere 220 Ibs. The remaining bulk of the 3,428-lb. craft that the Russians fired into space consisted large ly of fuel and the retrorockets that slowed Luna 9's final descent. In addition, the payload was detached from its rocket engines just before impact and hurled to one side, well away from the area that was disturbed by the fiery blasts of the descending retrorockets...
With a chuff of steam and a skirl of wheels, the aged black locomotive pulled out of Danang, carrying 500 passengers bound for Hue. Soon it began to climb toward the mist-shrouded Ai Van Pass. As the train reached the crest and began its freewheeling descent, the passengers relaxed-prematurely. Suddenly the rails snapped like broken rubber bands as a Viet Cong pressure mine exploded. When the smoke cleared, the passengers-fortunately uninjured-clambered wearily through the brambles to nearby Route 1 and thumbed or hiked their way into Hue. It was business as usual on South Viet...