Word: float
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Float like a butterfly," it said. "Sting like...
...lost in this year's first nine months topped 22 million, v. 12 million in the equivalent period last year. The combination of strikes?which have curbed exports?and inflation have made the pound once again the sickest of the major world currencies. Last June, Britain let the pound float, that is, allowed market forces to determine its price. Lately it has been not so much floating as sinking. Early this month...
...Francis the Melville of painting. Yet his best work sometimes touches an epic quality that makes sense of his ambitions. "There is no conflict in my painting," Francis once remarked. "The conflict is in my life. I feel trapped by gravity. I would like to fly, to soar, to float like a cloud, but I am tied down to a place. Painting...
...Lisa, Diary of a Mad Housewife) resists their every effort, and eventually defeats them. The novel had Maria crushed by the anomie symbolized-perhaps too patly -by Southern California. The movie explains nothing. Perry is like a snorkle diver bobbing about in a bowl of angst. Content to float along watching the curious creatures beneath him, he never gets below the surface...
McCurdy said the big problem has been to get the harriers down to earth after their one point victory over the Quakers. "But they certainly earned the right to float around for a while," McCurdy said...