Word: descent
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Kilpatrick himself is not of Native American descent but describes himself as "a child...
Those of Italian-American descent view Columbus Day as an integral part of their ethnic make...
...When you look through a facebook and assign them to one race, you are classifying them in a way that may not be fair," said Fernandez, who is of Indian descent...
...ennui and loathing. Pundits exhausted their thesauruses in the search for new synonyms for doleful, dreary and vacuous. Ordinary folks made the classic finger-in-throat gesture, or pitched forward face first into their azalea beds. On the cover of the Nation, presidential history was depicted as a Darwinian descent from the triumphantly upright Franklin Roosevelt on down to an invertebrate Clinton-Dole level just above the primordial scum...
Another group, led by John Flaherty and John O'Connor, both Cantabrigians of Irish descent, lobbied the council to consider its efforts to bring a memorial to the victims of the Irish Potato Famine of 1847 to the Cambridge Common...