Word: descent
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This resolution was also passed by the Senate after the senators received a flood of letters which exceeded the number of letters concerning all issues on foreign policy but the war in Vietnam. Therefore, self-respecting citizens of the Eastern European descent together with other concerned citizens should urge the Congress to establish Captive Nations' committees in both houses of the Congress to expose the Russian colonialism and the crimes against humanity committed by the Communists in Eastern Europe. Dr. Alexander V. Berkis Professor of History Longwood College
Shortly after his dramatic descent, one spotlight shifted to the back of the room, and down towards the stage came a model displaying the Five Point Geometric Hair Style. "The style that started it all for me," the world-famous hairdresser triumphantly said...
...book's failure shows itself not in Cyril's character, as such, but in his flaw as an unreliable narrator. Not only does his insensitive greed provoke a climate for disaster (with Hugh's death in a fatal game of masturbatory coupe-corde, and Catherine's descent into madness), but his absolute self-preoccupation and enfuriating blindness deprive the story of its tragic force. Crushing Hawkes's poetry is the dead weight of what he contrives as Cyril's stupid prose...
...wife organized the Quakers in prison, sending them letters and survival kits consisting of socks, mufflers, weevil-proof biscuits, a jar of prunes for the bowels' sake, and of course a Bible. In the most affecting chapters of the novel, De Hartog dramatizes Margaret's voluntary descent into the dungeons of Lancashire Castle, where she lived with imprisoned children, including an eleven-year-old boy condemned to be hanged for murder...
...soft landing" on the planet Mars. Although they were accompanied by few technical details, the pictures of what looked like a flying samovar gave some clues to its operation: after its conical heat shield (not shown) was jettisoned, a small parachute was released, retarding the capsule's descent slightly in the thin Martian atmosphere. Then the larger main chute was unfurled from a ring-shaped container under the lander's spherical body. Finally, a burst from the ship's retrorocket provided additional crucial braking for the landing. After only 20 seconds on the surface, however, the lander...