Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, all was not lost for Mexican American voters. Of the CASA mem bers on the new council, two are Anglos and three are of Mexican descent...
...tragedy of Sam and Henny is no grand Sophoclean descent into doom. They live like a couple of roaches battling over garbage, and fate simply sluices them down the drain. But every page is written with battering intensity. The Man Who Loved Children is a big black diamond of a book, an exotic and virulent attar of hatred...
...refuse chute comes down the other side of our bedroom wall. After late parties, we hear the descent of 21 stories of beer cans and bottles," another tenant said...
...will drown or that their ship will sink if not picked up promptly. Storms do not corrugate the land with dangerous waves, as they do the sea, and if the spacecraft drops into an unscheduled spot, there are generally at least a few local people to report its descent and help the crewmen. Perhaps the greatest advantage is that a spacecraft designed for a ground landing does not have to carry flotation gear or be made waterproof...
...ship was said to have made a soft touchdown on deep snow, with the aid of parachutes. Newspapers described its flaming descent through the atmosphere and discussed the loss of radio contact when an antenna burned off. But all this is normal. It was the long silence after landing that was ominous. Then word came that the cosmonauts were safe; Yuri Gagarin, Russia's space pioneer, talked to them by telephone and reported that "they are completely healthy." Whatever had gone wrong on the last, dangerous trajectory that led back to earth had apparently not detracted from the overall...