Word: float
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...Every night a busy industry gears up to test the weak points all along the border's 1,952 miles. In Tijuana smugglers cram three people into a car trunk and a fourth behind a dashboard, then drive through the customs checkpoint, hoping nobody suspects anything. In Calexico aliens float down a stream choked with toxic chemicals and sewage, betting the border patrol won't jump in to pull them out. In nearby Nogales smugglers tunnel 6 ft. under the border and funnel people through...
...meantime, Sutter must endure and write up this Talcott festival for his Internet employer of the moment: "A bloodless edit will follow...and one day an electronic burp with his byline will float up into the Web morass, a little bubble of content he will never...
...politicians certainly have to be aware of the climate when they float these ideas, and now, with the markets having fallen so far, is certainly not a great time to be floating a Social Security plan that depends even in part on investment in the stock market...
...usually go. In fact, in a way it is about traveling to places, physical and mental, that most people would rather avoid. Johnson comes, and he sees, and he writes about it. Sometimes he passes judgment. Unsurprisingly, he puts it best himself: “I want to float above the fray, want to be like Walt Whitman, ‘both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.’” Johnson’s only shortfall is the shortness of his output—I’d like...
Still, they float around, like my very own Pforzheimer squad, who after getting down 13-1 to Lowell, scored 24 runs in the last two innings to win, 25-15. In the process, mighty PfoHo crippled its captain, Dan Fernandez, a Crimson sports executive, on a lazy fly ball that somehow managed to fracture his middle finger. Though he valiantly tried to play second and then pitch, he ultimately had to sit on the sidelines and watch his team collapse...