Word: descents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caves in his native Ariège in southern France. Then he ran an office-equipment firm in Paris, but the passion was still with him. Last year he was a member of an expedition which had set up a new spelunking record: 1,168 feet in vertical descent into the earth's crust...
...South Africa's textile factories, white girls, most of them Afrikaners (of Dutch descent), work willingly alongside half-caste and Negro girls. The man mainly responsible for such amity is a 50-year-old Russian-born Jew named Emil Solomon Sachs. Secretary of the garment workers' union for 24 years and known to its 20,000 devoted members as "Solly," Labor Leader Sachs has helped raise their average weekly wage from $3 to $24 over the years...
...claims descent from Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoleon's first wife...
...Statesman Connally from the Senate floor, is just "a province out in the Pacific Ocean ... I think I am a better American than a great many people who live in Hawaii. I've been to Hawaii. The majority of the people there are not of American ancestry or descent...
...shatter the nerve of an ordinary competitor, but slim-hipped, 130-lb. Andy was in high spirits last week as she inspected the special (i.e., shorter) slalom course for her final race. Andy skittered around like a frisky colt as Coach Herb Jocum and Husband Dave Lawrence plotted her descent. "Gee," said Andy with a carefree grin, "this looks like a swell course...