Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...straight back, in the style of, better brace yourself, Jack Pickford or the late Douglas Fairbanks. The fact that I have to reach back four decades to describe his hairdo will only stress the curiously old-fashioned look of him. Some men dash into a room, some gallop, others float, burgeon, slide, pad, lope or glide. McNamara's entrance is something between a creep and a stroll...
...large parts of Latin America, Asia and Africa, long-term capital is scarcely available at any price, and great chunks of it are hard to come by in Europe. Last week the deficit-ridden U.S. Government had to pay the highest rates since the Civil War - 6.45% - to float $730 million in bonds (see BUSINESS). Double-A corporate bonds market for as much as 6.8%, twice as high as in 1955. On a $40,000 mortgage in Washington, D.C., the tag is 6.5%, plus a "discount" charge of two interest points ($800); in Los Angeles, it is 7% plus...
...twin-boom J-2 gyroplane can virtually duplicate the performance of a helicopter. It can make a jump takeoff, cruise at 120 m.p.h., maintain altitude at a forward speed of only 30 m.p.h. and settle gently to a spot landing. Should its engine fail in flight, the gyroplane can float safely to earth under its whirling rotor, much like a Cracker Jack toy. It cannot, however, match the helicopter's unique feat of hovering motionless in midair...
...from Accomac to Yorktown. Not only did the assembly approve a record two-year budget of $3.13 billion, up 27.5% from 1966-68; it also gave Godwin authority to borrow $81 million of it. If voters approve in a November referendum, Virginia for the first time this century will float a general obligation-bond issue, a routine fiscal expedient long employed by all but a scattering of states...
Nature has foiled Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci again. Harvard will not float out to sea Friday night even if the Charles River reaches the nine foot crest that the U.S. Weather Bureau predicts...