Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over them float squiggling black lines that might be found on a microscope slide. Perhaps Klee meant to indicate his awareness of a hostile, alien substance heralding the beginning of disintegration. Two years later, on June 29, 1940, Klee died of his wasting disease...
...boozer on Saturday night and is rich as hot gammon. In a country of free teeth he has only five blackened stumps ("tombstones") and possesses nothing much but a cherished tapeworm, which he "gasses" with liberal quantities of raw onion. But his friendship with Arp glows like the lavatory float of "valuable copper" in a desert of uncommercial junk...
...NIGHT PROMOTERS will find it harder to float stock under new SEC rules. Commission, which formerly exempted stock issues of $300,000 or less from its full-disclosure regulations, will withhold exemption from all brokers with record of SEC violations, require more detailed information on small issues of new companies that showed no profit in one of two previous years...
...search of a truly different type of drink, invaded the Harvard Faculty Club and the Cambridge Elks Club this week. They made off with whiskey and ice cream, as well as a small amount of cash, and appeared on the verge of creating a new drink, the whiskey float...
...Flicker of Flame." Said Pilot Hancox later: "There was a flicker of flame from under the right wing. Then it became a ball of fire and he fell. I followed him down and dropped a float light in the middle of the burning gasoline, and began to sweep the area. I would have landed if I had spotted anybody. I didn't drop parachute flares because the moon and the fire itself gave me plenty of light...