Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recipe: preheat a six-ounce glass with very hot water. Empty and refill the glass three-fourths full of hot, black, strong coffee. Add three cubes of sugar and stir until dissolved. Add a full jigger of Irish whisky and float whipped cream...
...high speed and air friction on the metals used in aircraft building. In an emergency the capsule-enclosed cockpit can be ejected from the new plane; after it falls by parachute to a safe altitude, the pilot can bail out as if from any more conventional craft and float to earth with his own chute. With the X-2 flying in the air perhaps as fast as 2,250 m.p.h., the old X-1A will probably never be missed...
...brings to the screen the greatest adventure story of the Western world. Visually, the picture could scarcely be better. The camera's Cyclopean eye stares deep into the Minoan age that has come down only in legend and a few tantalizing shards from Peloponnesus and Crete. Misty islands float in a magic wide-screen sea, naiads romp along the water's edge, enchantresses lurk in sacred groves, galleys roll and toss on angry waves conjured up by Poseidon...
...uses curved and unfolding plant forms to give a sense of enclosed space that, to Sculptor Lipton, suggests a "togetherness . . . of feeling and meaning, of inside and outside, of past and future." Egyptian-born Ibram Lassaw, 42, is the mystic among sculptor-welders; his brazed metal rods seem to float in the air like airy skyscraper girders. David Hare, 38, a color photographer turned surrealist, can put together a few jagged pieces of metal and dangling rods that, gilded with gold, suggest a sunrise...
...save their downtown sections, some cities have created public authorities to float bonds and build off-street garages. They have also encouraged private garages and parking-lot companies, which have already spent $3.5 billion to create 2,750,000 off-street spaces. With a remarkable burst of civic energy, Chicago tackled its problem in 1952, accomplished almost overnight what many cities plan to spend decades doing. When the parking shortage in downtown Chicago began to pinch retailers, they persuaded the city to order a $50 million emergency program. Beneath a great tract of Grant Park, facing Michigan Avenue...