Word: descent
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Sickle-cell anemia, a genetic disease, generally strikes people of African, southern Mediterranean and Asian descent. There is no known cure...
...recently received a communique from one of our favorite correspondents, Martha Duffy, who in her years as a researcher, writer and senior editor at TIME has covered every aspect of the arts. Her sprightly critique of modern fashion's descent into the facetious and Felliniesque appears in this issue. Duffy says...
...Anglo" is a ethnic-specific term referring only to people of English descent. It excludes people of Irish, Italian, German, Greek, and other European ancestries. Indiscriminately calling white Americans "Anglo" is equivalent to calling all Latino "Mexican" or all Asian-Americans "Chinese." No one would question that such labels would be inaccurate and inadequate, and perhaps even racist...
Individual tragedies easily become subsumed within impersonal statistics. Their various plights are often the result of the accretion of missteps after which the descent into the bleak underside of life seems unstoppable...
...former mayor, who is of Irish descent, returns to the state in two weeks to participate in St. Patrick's Day events and many feel he will officially declare his candidacy then...