Word: drift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, who flew over the Pole in 1926: "This is a superb undertaking. ... It is my guess that the group . . . will drift over toward Spitzbergen or Greenland and in order to stay at the Pole they will have to move their base periodically in the direction of Alaska...
...disaffection created by the Court issue, and for all its readiness to differ with the President on ways to Economy, Congress had apparently been led so long and so firmly that it lacked either will or ability to order its ranks, proceed under its own power. Now the drift from White House domination had progressed so far that Washington seriously wondered whether Congress would respond when the President returned from his fishing to resume command...
...dancers, chorus girls and strip-teasers. Last month the New Gotham Theatre in Harlem reached the inevitable when four of its strippers were said to have revealed themselves for an electric moment with nothing on at all. The more acute among the 50,000 fans who weekly drift from one New York burlesque house to another felt that official wrath could not be far away...
Getting off to a fairly convincing start, "King of Gamblers" proceeds to drift downhill with amazing rapidity. Claire Trevor as a blonde night club singer exercises her vocal organs with mild success for the first few minutes of the performance, but when the plot begins to thicken, the interest of the audience takes a definite slump...
...barrage to cover a landing party of Marines. The gunner's thrust was his last. As he shoved home the shell, up with a roar went the breech in a great red flare of flame and blood against the blue. "I saw one boy sort of drift past me," recounted a survivor, "floating through the air, half of his head shot off, and land on the deck. It was awful...