Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there for two hours, rockin. As we were leaving, the dapper man with the horned-rim glassed waved goodbye. "You'll float all the way home," he said. HERBERT S. MEYERS
...cannon (or cannon sound effects) have been booming forth for 70 years. In Rochester last week, the gunfire brought down some trophies. As the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra reached the firing point, and cannon roared offstage, the audience in Eastman Theater was astonished to see a cloud of duck feathers float down from the ceiling. The orchestra people hastened to explain that it was no part of the program. Their best guess: "Pranksters who knew music and the catwalks...
...many ways, Spain's long, indented Mediterranean shoreline is ideal. But Sixth Fleet staff officers ruefully noted last week that not one of Spain's east coast ports has a deep enough channel to float the carrier FDR; Spanish cranes are too small, and drydocks, fuel tanks and warehouses are hopelessly inadequate to service U.S. capital ships. If Spain is to become a U.S. naval base, it will cost many pesetas...
...travelers will face a new difficulty, never before experienced by human beings. The earth's gravitational field still pulls at a space ship, but as soon as the craft is no longer supported by the air, its occupants feel no gravitation. They become weightless. In the comics they float around merrily, enjoying their new freedom, but in sober fact they will probably behave like stumbling idiots. The human body's sense-organs that control balance and muscular action need gravity to guide them. The crewmen of space ships will need a lot of training before they can make...
Despite Kahn, the southward migration of New England's textile industry continued. Monroe County, Miss, prepared to float a $2,600,000 bond issue to supply Rhode Island's Textron, Inc. with a plant-all part of Mississippi's well-organized program to "balance agriculture with industry." Since this program got under way in 1938, Mississippi has lured nearly 70 new plants (mostly textiles) to the state. Result: state employment has jumped by 15,000, payrolls by $35 million. Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama have similar programs...