Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down. To underline America's pacific intentions, the customary show of rockets and tanks and guns was banned; the armed forces' participation was limited to one division apiece, plus small representations from the service academies. Each state, moreover, was held to a Governor's car, one float, one band and one marching unit, although Texas and Minnesota, in homage to the President and Vice President, were awarded an extra band each...
...thing. He may think he has - between boat shows. But when January rolls around and coliseums fill up with new craft and a thousand gadgets that have suddenly become sine qua non for sea farers, the amateur skipper realizes that his year-old, 40-ft. dreamboat is just a floating slum. Does Cap'n Jones have a Gentex contour-molded life jacket, guaranteed to turn the wearer face up in the water even if he is stunned or unconscious? A speedometer accurate to one one-hundredth of a knot? What about an unsinkable, watertight canvas bag, roomy enough...
...with most of the others. Arthur Friedman performed impeccably as Creon, assuredly and pompously reasoning his way out of the bursts of his King's anger and into the respect of the chorus. Robert Egan as Tiresias, the blind soothsayer, also allowed me to float by on the prose, mouthing what he could not see with such taste and skill that Yeats himself taunted the King Joanne Hamlin, who played Jocasta the Queen, adopted the precise style a bit too faithfully, speaking moderately, to be sure, but not quite forcefully enough for the part...
Wherever the United States decides to locate its new sea-level canal in Central America, the local economy will be dramatically affected-upwards. Virtually 100% of Panama's revenues ($90 million last year) are generated by the present canal. The new canal will unquestionably float similar benefits. But happy though the U.S. might be to see all the Central American nations so well-fixed financially, the new canal can only go in one place, and last week it looked as if that place would again be Panama-barring unforeseen treaty complications and further anti-U.S. riots like those...
...America by eliminating tariffs on tropical products. Even then, Central Americans will have to find much of their development money at home. Domestic interest rates should be more attractive, says the report, and "improved enforcement of tax laws is needed." Still, cautions the C.E.D., the recommended action "will not float Central America or anyone else along on a flood of rising trade. The opened markets will create an opportunity; the benefits will go to those who take advantage of them...