Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entry procedure. The retrorocket packet was supposed to be jettisoned after the rockets themselves had been fired. But the packet itself was bound to the capsule by three thin metal bands. Williams figured that the bands might be strong enough to hold the shield to the capsule during the descent. He knew that the heat would eventually burn away the straps, but he hoped that by that time the air resistance would be dense enough to hold the shield in place...
...mean good crops for 1962, and Wasfi's appointment coincided with the birth of Hussein's first son, Prince Abdullah, borne him by his 20-year-old British wife Toni. In the rejoicing, most Jordanians were prepared to forget that this was the first Hashemite of mixed descent in 38 generations...
Leading political thinker of the S.A.O. is Jean-Jacques Susini, 28, a gifted pied-noir of Corsican descent. His ideas are frankly fascist ("Why don't we come out and say so?") but, publicly at least, they are devoid of racial overtones?largely because the 130,000 Jews of Algeria are pro Algérie Française, and because S.A.O. propaganda has to insist, preposterous though the claim is, that the majority of Moslems love the S.A.O. better than the F.L.N. Susini, the young doctrinaire, and Salan, the old politician-general, have become close friends. He listens intently to Susini...
...female voice sounds out of place in the cramped cockpit of a high-flying B58 bomber: "Oxygen quantity low. Oxygen quantity low. Descend to safe altitude.Monitor oxygen system until descent is accomplished...
...Shinto after the war. On Dec. 15. 1945, General Douglas MacArthur's occupation government cut all ties between Shinto and the state, forbade teaching of its doctrines in public schools. On New Year's Day 1946. Emperor Hirohito publicly told his people that the story of his descent from the gods was only "myth and legend." In the shock that followed disestablishment, priests cast off their symbolic white robes to become black marketeers; shrines rented out space to small businesses, or served as places of assignation for prostitutes...