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Word: float (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyway, Naso sent in the field goal union, including sophomore placekicker Richard Cory, to give it a shot. While the Lion cheerleaders (you had to be there) thought the attempt was good, everyone else clearly saw it float wide to the right. Sorry, girls...

Author: By Michael Bass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Just For Kicks | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...tried to float the idea of giving the President authority to impound funds appropriated by Congress. That would undercut the Budget Act of 1974, which was passed after President Nixon repeatedly used impoundment to control the flow of federal spending in defiance of congressional wishes. Not surprisingly, Democrats were cool to the idea, saying that the proposal was just a copout for the Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making It Work | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

Choreographer Johanna Boyce needed an Olympic-size pool to stage, or float, her commissioned piece Waterbodies. Five harps were moved to the pool deck at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the nearest suitable pool, to play Jack Eric Williams' score. A backdrop screen showed footage of underwater escapades while Vermont-raised Boyce and her nine mostly nonprofessional performers splashed, sang, burbled, slithered and dived de deux. Far from synchronized swimming, Waterbodies explored movement with the playful exuberance of a midnight swim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Synthesizer Chic in North Carolina | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...TRIO--Zod, Ursa, and Non--are none other than the criminals-in-chief of Superman's home planet, Krypton. At the end of Part I, they were imprisioned by our hero's father and doomed to float about the galaxy in a funky outer-space jail cell. Freed, they decided to take over earth and rule forever, needless to say, in a most unpleasant manner...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Look! In the Motel! It's... | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

...Ryumin, who in three trips spent just short of a year in space. Writes Ryumin of his shaky introduction to space travel: "Looking into the mirror I fail to recognize myself. I feel dizzy, nauseous. My movements lack coordination. I keep bumping into things, mostly with my head. Objects float away from my hands. Chaos in a teapot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Final Salute to Salyut 6 | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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