Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Dirksen's nimble leap aboard the Goldwater bandwagon [July 10] is a sad exercise in a politician's descent from statesmanship. We are fortunate that he cannot take back the civil rights bill and the test ban treaty even as he forfeits our confidence and trust...
...shot him. Beneath a nobly domed forehead, pale eyes glared out from a meanly featured face. This repellent countenance would on rare occasions be relieved by an unpleasant smile. Yet for all his unprepossessing appearance, he had the pride of Lucifer himself. He insisted on his aristocratic descent...
Scoop, Slurp & Chop. Looking beyond Europe, the Agrnesis plan another aggressive campaign in Japan, which, curiously, is second in world pasta consumption, and in Australia and South America, which have sizable Italian-descent populations. Aiming also for the big U.S. market, Agnesi hopes to overcome the American complex about weight by stressing that hard-wheat spaghetti contains only 300 calories a serving and is rich in B and E vitamins. Agnesi hopes to prove that it is also so filling that Americans, who can be distinguished at the table by their knife, fork, spoon, twirl, twist, scoop, slurp, and even...
...evolution than the cultures of Asia and Europe, though were comparable to the indigenous cultures of North America, Australasia, and the island communities of the Western Pacific. I also argued that upon introduction to modern technological society, this fact necessarily produced a cultural inferiority complex among peoples of African descent...
...location of this remark in your correspondent's article gives the misleading impression that I said Negro peoples should accept a cultural inferiority complex. This I did not say. What I said was that in terms of the concept of "Negritude," it is held that peoples of African descent cannot overcome a certain cultural inferiority complex by denying that their indigenous cultures were at a technologically low level of evolution...