Word: float
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capa saw the chutes float down "like strings of diminishing pearls" in the moonlight and flarelight. The formation, its mission safely accomplished, turned back toward Africa. The men landed below were gathering up equipment, scurrying into tactical groups...
Biggest single salvage job in history, the righting of the 82,423-ton liner will be no short, champagne ceremony. Next week the newspapermen and Navy guests who watch from the new wooden stands will see only the beginning of the operation. Not for weeks will the Lafayette float upright. Not for months will she be ready to sail again...
...almost 30 years everybody was pleased. But recently bankers have been able to float St. Paul bonds at interest rates lower than the "city bank" could afford. Depositors could get more than the "bank's" 2% from war bonds...
...Benes proposal is as clear as any yet to float up on the muddy waters of Allied postwar aims. It comes from a statesman who for the past decade has called the turn on European events with consistent accuracy. It predicates a maximum of "live and help live" in a world more accustomed to "grab and hold on." As Benes prepared to leave for further talks and conferences in Russia, the U.S. could do nothing less than wish him well...
...soft, whitish metal, like silvery cheese, lithium is not only the lightest metal but the lightest known solid: it will float on gasoline. (Cork and balsa wood only seem lighter: they are pocketed with air.) Long known in the laboratories for its instability, lithium tarnishes almost instantly in air, decomposes water at ordinary temperatures. It owes its new usefulness to this chemical alacrity, and to the dogged research of a small company (The Lithium Co., Newark, N.J.) which now has some big customers...