Word: float
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Iran fiasco to a Washington dinner party. His excited table partners waited between sips of wine for him to begin to blab (as 99 out of every 100 members of Congress are wont to do), to divulge savory tidbits with the salad about the notorious swashbuckler Oliver North, to float with the coffee dark hints of world-tilting plots yet unexposed...
...period of transition, it would be very easy for the rest of the world to say, 'take your time.' But ... they're already a global economic leader, so they aren't going to get as much time as they might like." China may not be in a position to float its currency today, he adds, "but it needs to get itself into that position...
...When word starts to leak out that you might start to expand it into some of these issues that heretofore have been labeled as liberal, that word starts to float around and those that have been in leadership in a conservative organization start to blink and that's what happened," Hunter said in parting...
...center of a synergistic whirlwind of guest appearances, concert dates and recording sessions aimed at hyping Hannah Montana. She's performing in several cities as opening act for The Cheetah Girls - a made-by-Disney tween-targeted girl group - on their 40-city tour. She rode a celebrity float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade before returning to Los Angeles to start production on the series' second season...
...playing in long, dry grasses is even more striking. This photograph—characteristic of Rockefeller’s best images—combines compositional creativity and an emotional congruence with the subject, while forgoing the pretensions of photojournalism. The grass becomes an abstract background on which the boys float, frolicking with a disarming intensity. There is very little visual context in the photograph, but it is this abandonment of documentary principles that makes it so appealing. The spatter and strew of the grasses is absorbing and positively disorienting, a visual compliment to the boys’ joyful ecstasy...