Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Racing under conditions that were more like Long Island Sound in August than New England in April, the Harvard-Radcliffe sailing teams managed only to drift to a second, third and two last-place finishes last weekend...
According to the handful of foreigners who were present, the protest soon expanded into a general expression of rage against the radical drift of Chinese politics since Chou's death. One eulogy pinned to a memorial wreath pointedly praised Mao's late second wife Yang K'ai-hui-an unmistakable slight to the Chairman's current (and fourth) wife, Radical Leader Chiang Ch'ing, who is Teng's implacable enemy. Even more astonishing, a poem circulated at the protest read: "Gone for good is Ch'in Shih Huang feudal society...
...Bobo Brazil, for example, the ever-popular champ, has a skull that is reputed to be four inches thick. He inflicts a torture known as the 'Coco-butt' upon his terrorized victims. By smashing his oversized cranium against theirs, he is able to shatter loose bits of bone which drift into their brain over succeeding months. The lucky ones become basket cases. Others bleed from their ears and lose all control over their bowel function...
Mastery or Drift...
...keep the franc in the so-called European snake -an arrangement that bound France, West Germany, the Benelux countries, Sweden, Norway and Denmark to hold their currencies within a 4.5% range of fluctuation against each other. Fourcade proposed that the permitted variation be widened slightly, allowing the franc to drift gently down and the mark and Dutch guilder to bob up a bit. West Germany agreed, but The Netherlands balked, contending that Dutch exports and thus the nation's economy would be damaged. The French concluded that they had no alternative but to leave the snake...