Word: float
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...emphasized a whole new way of thinking about politics. "It's about whether we will have a president and a party that will lead us to a brighter future," he declared Tuesday night, in his North Carolina victory speech. He has presented himself as a transformative figure who can float outside of American history, undefined by his race, his Harvard education, his globe-trotting childhood, or the culture wars of the 1960s. He sells himself as the man who could "change the world," and millions of people have flocked to the message...
Burma's state media quoted a government official saying the situation in the country was "returning to normal." This as the death toll from last week's cyclone is estimated, by some, to be as high as 100,000, as bodies float in waterways, as shortages of water, rice, medicine and fuel, as well as fear of disease, grip the populace and people swarm shops and and dash toward any location where they think they can find supplies to help them make it through the crisis...
This did not faze Kerkmans, who was sure he'd have me loving beer by the first afternoon. We started by trying some nonlight American lagers over lunch at the hotel bar to figure out what I like, which definitely included a beer float using vanilla ice cream and an ale called Tommyknocker Cocoa Porter Winter Warmer. What I liked, Kerkmans determined, was rich, toasty malt over biting hops, ales over lagers and anything with a Belgian yeast. I also seemed to like beers more when I drank a lot of them...
...chorus of parents declaring that "I never thought it could happen here." That's not because they know the statistics--that youth violence is dropping, that schools are getting safer, that fewer than 1% of teen gun-related deaths occur in schools--it's because many of us float our children off to school in a bubble, grateful to live in a wholesome town--"We are America," Santee Mayor Randy Voepel declared--and unwilling to admit that the danger could follow us no matter where...
...father bought in 1963 from Paul-Andre Chopard, a descendant of the founder, Louis-Ulysse Chopard, she has been looking for ways to expand the brand beyond its watchmaking roots. In 1976 she came up with the concept of Happy Diamonds, now a company signature, wherein 30 diamonds float inside a man's watch. It was a huge hit and an opening to the bigger market of fine jewelry. "My father collected clowns, so I designed one with Happy Diamonds in the stomach, and that was the beginning of our jewelry," she says...