Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scimitars a civilization that was far in advance of anything found in Europe during the Dark Ages. With the conquering Moslem armies came algebra, advances in medicine, chess, astronomy, paper instead of papyrus. Compared with heavy Romanesque, their architecture seemed to defy gravity, lifting lacy ceilings that appeared to float like airy tents above thin columns of jasper and porphyry, while within each courtyard water splashed from fountains, turning their Islamic buildings into cool cases in stone...
...waters of the Charles, which have long been used to float Harvard crews, are now being violated by another kind of boat which shares their ability to float home first...
...says the program. As the show starts, guitars throb, drums thrump. On the screen, a bloated slide projection of Harry, the Imprisoned Intellectual, is suddenly swallowed into a great green greasy neon doughnut. "Can you float through the universe of your body?" wonders the Guide...
Escape was constantly on Dengler's mind, but the prisoners decided to wait until monsoons had swollen the streams and rivers down which they hoped to float. On June 29 they made their break. Dengler slipped his footcuffs, grabbed four rifles and a bag of rice while the guards were eating. The prisoners killed six of their captors in a flurried firefight, then split into pairs in hopes of making their escape route difficult to follow...
Like Whales. Unlike Eastern's Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, his longtime competition, Woolman skipped propjet airplanes and waited for the pure jets to arrive. When they did, he refused to float convertible debentures to finance them, instead used Delta's retained earnings and some modest bank loans. He also ordered a conservative ten-year depreciation schedule instead of the twelve to 16 years that most airlines use. Woolman took the advent of newer, faster, larger airplanes in stride. "I remember when I thought the DC-3 was the biggest plane I'd ever see," he would say. "They...