Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should be strongly emphasized that the same comparisons were made by many American citizens of Eastern European descent who fled from their native countries at the close of the Second World War. Those refugees left their native countries because they considered Communism the curse and pestilence of mankind...
...quarter of an hour the bus had made the descent from the mountain, braking every 20 yards or so, and had stopped on the road that ran just outside Morochata. I put my knapsack on my back and was pointed toward the restaurant where I was to meet my contact. There, seated at a table in an interior patio where the sun shone strongly, sat Padre Ray Herman...
...should become known that General Taylor has discussed the Cuban affair with you, the press as well as the Congress will immediately descent on us en masse demanding equal treatment," Kennedy wrote. "This would be extremely embarrassing as the position to date even with the Congress has been that the facts relating to the Cuban affair are limited to the executive branch...
...assumed the Chinese would welcome us as fellow oppressed peoples because we were all minority students. Thirteen of us were black. There were two Puerto Ricans, two Chicanos; one girl was of German descent and one fellow was of Polish ancestry. The only Oriental in our group was a Japanese-American girl whose parents grew up near Tokyo. One of the Chicanos, who became a U.S. citizen only six weeks before we left the country, told a reporter covering our trip preparations that the Chinese "are interested in the Latin community." We were also the youngest group to visit China...
...Doig is tall and skinny and if I remember correctly he has a mole somewhere on his long face. He is of Scottish descent and he laughs loud and deep at things that are only vaguely funny. He smokes a pipe all day long; if you catch him at any time after eleven o'clock in the morning you will find that he stinks from the odor of tobacco...