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Word: float (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...express this new found emotion rather strangely and athletically. The heroine, clad in filmy white, and her new love, more suitably dressed for the long hike ahead of them, set out over hill and dale, under fences, over bridges, through meadows, until finally, faint from fatigue, they float gently downstream in a skiff. Having recovered strength, the two hike back to the house, where unencumbered by clothes, they hop happily into the tub. Luck being with the lovers, neither the husband nor the ex-lover hear all the splashing and the two spend what is left of the night together...

Author: By M. Armstrong, | Title: The Lovers | 1/21/1960 | See Source »

What about the other galaxies that float in space far beyond the limits of the Milky Way? Astronomer Gold is one of the leading proponents of the steady-state universe theory, which holds that as old galaxies move apart, new galaxies form between them out of freshly created matter. Planets in new galaxies, he says, may be lifeless for a while, but eventually the contamination will reach them too. All they need is a single visit from an intergalactic germ-spreading spaceship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Life Without End | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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