descent upon
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And so it goes through the plot's clockwork convolutions, with the Act 2 descent upon Hertfordshire introducing Marisa Duchowny, her Cecily Cardew all girlish ruthlessness and precisely timed flutter.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2014
The police descent upon the Woods estate followed two possibly significant breaks in the case, which has spurred one of the greatest manhunts in California's history.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reporters and cameramen made a precipitant descent upon No. 6 E. 68th St., Manhattan�the home of Frank L. Polk.
From Time Magazine Archive
But each would help, if Nimitz meant to go to the coast of China and thence to Korea, and use Korea as General Eisenhower used southern England for staging the descent upon Normandy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Therefore when I heard of her meeting you I was glad; I was almost reconciled to the notion of that vulgar descent upon America.
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
