Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shadows-presumably acting as intermediaries between Mrs. Felzer and the actual buyers-stood one D. Franklin Carson, who called himself a "pro-regent,"* and "Prince" Samuel Crowningburg Amalu, 42, who claims descent from the family of Hawaii's famed King Kamehameha the Great...
Died. General Count Jacques Aldebert de Chambrun, 89, stalwart servant of two nations, an honorary U.S. citizen by virtue of his direct descent from the Marquis de Lafayette, a Sahara-seasoned French soldier who aided the A.E.F. by serving on General Pershing's staff, in World War II kept open both the American Hospital and American Library in Paris; after a short illness; in Paris...
...blissful descent is over. You exhilarated and proud, and it seems worth the worry. The of your happiness equals--at --the amount of your fear before-. And, as my friend declares, feel that "Your perspective is re-. You just don't exaggerate things after you've parachuted." is my conclusion, then, after back on my one and only , that the experience of can get through to you pretty . It can force you in on your---as never before, and it can take away from yourself--for four sec---as never before. It isn't all , nor is it all thrill...
Huxley's utopia is the island of Pala, whose happy inhabitants of mixed Indian, European and native descent have evolved a new form of Mahayanist Buddhism...
...everyone by surprise. It took place in what is perhaps the most economically advanced nation on the continent-a rich land of spreading pampas, beef and grain, in which no Gaucho or laborer needs to go hungry. It is a land whose 20 million people, mostly of European immigrant descent, consider themselves infinitely superior to the citizens of neighboring Latin countries. It is urban and modern: one-third of the nation live within the capital city of Buenos Aires, a Parisian city whose aristocracy is the most sophisticated in Latin America. More than half of the nation live either...