Word: driftings
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...Police motorcycles turn on their sirens and roll around the corner of Boylston onto Tremont. They are followed by a marching band of 20 bagpipers, a mounted detachment of the Boston Police, and a small contingent of Greek-American veterans. Several floats from Greek Orthodox churches, clubs and schools drift past while their costumed riders wave and smile. A military jet flies low overhead, and a single propeller plane pulls an enormous Greek flag through...
...pricey interior. Customers asking for a Bud Light will be disappointed--but then again, guzzling Bud isn't really the reason to visit Daisy's in the first place. Here paying $6 for a weak Jameson's and soda grants you license to be part of the scene, to drift softly among some of Boston's more beautiful bodies...
...earnest '60s liberal. When Owen Brown realizes that he regards a black farmer as an equal but not wholeheartedly as a friend, his self-conscious queasiness seems oddly modern. Like Owen, the author has often been confounded by his good intentions. When Bob Dubois migrates to Florida in Continental Drift and has a love affair with a beautiful black woman, Banks sets aside his gritty naturalism, and that is all we learn: she is black and beautiful. Another black woman in that book, a Haitian refugee, remains mostly a symbol of mute, heroic survival, despite chapters devoted...
...viruses are notoriously unstable-- "genetically labile," as one researcher puts it. Set one flu virus beside another, and the two may trade genes, a process called reassortment. If this reassortment produces a virus that closely resembles one of its parents, it is said to have undergone antigenic drift. On rare occasions, this scrambling can be dramatic. The virus becomes a kind of Frankenstein virus so different from existing strains that the human population has no immunity...
...City screens and waiting to get into the cyber Surf Shack nearby, to be reminded that the Games are an unchanging festival of youth. The athletes' quarters resemble the student union at some Fun U., where the most prominent magazine on sale is Tiger Beat and healthy young people drift around in search of same...