Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hawker Siddeley Aviation. Autoflare takes over within 150 ft. of the ground (see diagram). The plane is brought down the glide path toward the runway on radio beams from standard instrument landing equipment on the ground. From 150 ft. to 65 ft., twin computers aboard take control, directing the descent with information they have memorized and stored during the preceding 15 sec. At 65 ft., radio altimeters on board switch in. Now they signal the computers, which then bring the plane down to the proper landing point on the runway. The human pilot merely controls the plane's roll...
...Phyllis thinks of herself as a cradle Catholic, because her father was an Irish Catholic from way back, and her mother, who was of German descent, adopted Catholicism when she married her father...
...programmed to act out scenes of German guilt. They are much in demand among guilt-ridden Germans, and Amsel employs a large force of workers to build their elaborate machinery and package them in an abandoned potash mine. In a grotesque parody of that old literary device, the descent into hell, Amsel leads Matern and his black dog through his guilt factory. The black dog, who appears to embody both the bestial and the sturdily virtuous elements of the German nature, remains in Amsel's underworld as a Cerberus. But Matern is allowed to return to the surface...
...Jesus had an ironic reason for making a "good" Samaritan the hero of his parable: his Jewish listeners could think nothing but bad of the hated Samaritans, a heretical Jewish sect that claimed descent from Joseph and viewed Judeans as apostates. Samaritans then occupied one-third of Palestine, now they consist of only about 600 poverty-stricken people living in two decaying villages in Israel and Jordan...
...accepted a collective responsibility to be our brothers' keepers to a degree never before manifested." University of Illinois Sociologist Joseph Gusfield was equally optimistic. Mass society may create indifference, he said, but with it come mass communications that spur moral responses. Gusfield's prize example: the recent descent on Selma of Americans from every corner of the country. Gusfield called that phenomenon "one of the greatest outpourings of mass Samaritanism in American history...