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Word: float (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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That lift stayed with Bromwich for about two miles and then the doubts began to set in. "My mind started to float, I got tight behind the eyes . . . I know the symptoms and I began to get a bit paranoid, I thought mildly of dropping...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Harriers Hurdle Hills, Heat in Boston Marathon | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

...Adams House Upper Common Room. Pace and conversation are slow as they leave Radcliffe Yard. An actress hums 'Adeline,' a song from the show. When they reach Adams House, taped dance music blares too loudly for her to continue. A balloon pops, as in punctuation; shreds of orange rubber float to the floor now cluttered with cigarettes and booze...

Author: By Mercedes A. Laing, | Title: BEHIND THE GREENROOM DOOR | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...needs of foreigners--Leona Schecter had to bribe the UpDK carpenters with an agreed amount of vodka to get them to repair her apartment. While most Soviet citizens sincerely sing praises of communism, like the carpenters they are never ones to spurn the occasional niceties of capitalism that may float their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Please Don't Eat the Babushkas | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...these ambiguities are catnip to critics, especially those with a sociological bent. Many observe that the show is a kind of barge to float all the garbage of American culture out to sea. Yale English Professor David Thorburn, who uses the show in one of his courses, has called the Hartman family "an American house of Atreus," although there has been no slaughter so far. Several enthusiasts have compared the show with Ingmar Bergman's film, Scenes from a Marriage-to Bergman's disparagement. Perhaps because he wears a warm-up jacket, Tom has been likened to John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...live performance because it's set in an eighteenth-century opera house rather than in a studio. The performance conditions of Mozart's day are faithfully reproduced, down to the wing-and-shutter sets and even the wheel-and-pulley flying contraptions which allowed gods and cherubs to float onstage...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: The Magic of Two Masters | 1/16/1976 | See Source »

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