Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Wall Street legend, the head of a rival firm once impressed directors of a company about to float a securities issue by bringing his father, a revered financier, to a sales presentation. Weinberg, tipped by telephone that he had better do something quickly, hurried to the meeting. His opening words: "I'm sorry, gentlemen. My father is dead...
...promptly named him Apollo Eleven Salim. The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheik Ahmed Hereidi; said he approved lunar exploration because "the Koran urges Moslems to look up from their earthly abode to what lies behind the moon and the stars." In Recife, Brazilians planned an off-season carnival with float parades and dancing in the streets...
...clouds here are wonderful. Because of the heat, they are piled up high vertically and the light then hits vertically and the light then hits them at different angles. They look like massive sand castles, and elephants, and horses, and lobsters floating through the sky. Every day like that. Then late in the afternoon, big blue-gray storms start coming up over the delta from the Gulf of Mexico. Then there's thunder and lightning all over the place. Water running down the roof and into your ear. Rain filling up our top down MG until you can float...
...powerful, too far removed. And always there had been a more immediate task at hand. And yet, after an easy rout of Brown, here they were. A Cinderella team facing the might Eli. Somehow it was impossible, and in the euphoric week before The Game people seemed to float from place to place. Harvard sophomores got rich with tickets going for $200 each. The pundits were almost too numb to write about the biggest college game in decades. The old grads were in the finest hour...
Fortunately, Calkins probably realizes all this. He will never be a Lyndon Johnson, frustrated because not worshipped. He would probably laugh if he heard about the Kennedy-Lind-say-Calkins analogies that float around in corners of Cleveland...