Word: aloftness
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Since the early days of the Republic, America has been a seafaring nation. The powerful rigging of our Constitutional ideals have always been held aloft by the mast and spars of a concerned, active citizenry. This has been exemplified by the stout framework of a calling to public service, a concern for the public good and a charitable spirit of volunteerism. But no matter how seaworthy the craft, how adept the captain, or how steady the wind, without this structural integrity, even a great ship of state will eventually become paralyzed. Because today's concerned students are indeed stakeholders...
Ford hesitated, then, with the guidance of Colangelo, chose the real Pot and held it aloft as the crowd cheered...
...hours sleep in two days. Then the electrical and communications systems failed. As a pair of helicopters combed the region, Fossett changed course and headed for the Canadian Coast rather than risk landing in the frigid Bay of Fundy. Searchers soon discovered equipment the pilot had jettisoned to stay aloft, then spotted the bedraggled silver balloon skin near woods 65 miles north of the Maine border. An exhausted Fossett emerged from his all-weather capsule with few words: "I'm rather disappointed and embarrassed that I didn't do better on this...
...presumably hidden. After flying in from around the country on military transport, NEST searchers divide the threatened city--the cia and fbi assume terrorists will target an urban area in order to incur maximum casualties--into search grids. Energy Department aircraft, specially fitted with photographic equipment, are sent aloft to take shots of the city for detailed maps that can be used if intelligence sources narrow the search to a particular area or type of structure. Helicopters equipped with radiation detectors can sweep over the city as well, but a nuclear weapon gives off little telltale radiation and is nearly...
...portrait in 1923, when she was 51. It is a parody of one of William Blake's illustrations from The Song of Los. It comes out as a yearning apotheosis of the Jewish-American princess, in a semitranslucent nightie from some celestial boutique, languidly holding a bouquet and wafted aloft. Above her is the sun, looking like an expensive Christmas ornament. An insect-winged, bifurcated, slender-is flying toward it, helplessly attracted. It is Florine's eager soul, rising to the em pyrean. Bendel's she loved; and next to Bendel...