Word: driftings
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...contrived to keep afloat for these 150 years past, and to overawe their neighbors merely by her bulk and appearance; but whenever an insufficient man happens to have the command upon deck, adieu to the discipline and safety of the ship. She may perhaps not sink outright; she may drift some time as a wreck, and will then be dashed to pieces on the shore; but she can never be rebuilt on the old bottom...
With the foursome on the first tee, Arnie's army got the drift and cheered itself hoarse as Palmer, gulping cortisone pills to ease the pain of a bursitis attack in his right shoulder, one-putted six of the first nine holes. For Nicklaus there was open hostility: he ignored it for 17 holes, and then his approach to the 18th green bounced through a sand trap. "Hold! Hold!" shouted the crowd; a loud groan went up when the ball flipped safely past...
...drain could lead to "worldwide financial collapse." It is getting worse because Kennedy's handling of the problem "has been characterized throughout by insufficient recommendations, tardy proposals, watering down of plans already advanced, and lack of firm follow-through." Rockefeller accused Kennedy of "timid tinkering," "temporizing" and "continued drift...
...hoist those big balloons up through the hatch of the blimp? Nobody thinks of cutting the strings and letting the balloons just drift away as Gig holds on to Grover. Instead, Buttons takes a rifle and plugs the balloons one by one while hanging from the blimp by his belt. Eventually the last balloon goes splop-psssssssss. And so does the movie...
...Army Meteorologist Marvin Diamond had fired more than 1,000 rockets deep into the atmosphere above White Sands. Probing high above the maximum altitude of sounding balloons, his investigative missiles dropped metalized parachutes carrying temperature-measuring devices and providing tracking radars with easily detectable targets. By charting their drift, Diamond hoped to map the weather through which the U.S. must fire its growing family of space vehicles...