Word: float
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Spring in Minnesota and the first lawn mowing and first outdoor supper, and then it's spring prom. White limos the size of trawlers float up to a hotel marquee and disgorge boys in black tuxes and girls in black or turquoise or tangerine or emerald, and they troop in through the revolving doors, prepared to execute a waltz and make small talk if necessary...
...attended the general managers' winter meetings and began to float his resume around, and he remembers the hardship of trying to find work in the business...
...south as the Gulf of St. Lawrence. "We know this because of the butternuts," she says. "The closest places they grow are east of Quebec near the Gulf of St. Lawrence or in eastern New Brunswick. They are too heavy for birds to carry, and they can't float. And we know the Norse considered them a delicacy...
...father figure for Blanche's girls and keep his own sons aware of the necessary moderation between practicality and principles. Huyssen, more so than the other cast members, creates a palpable sense of his age through body language and speech pattern. David Parker's Eugene, who seems to float through the action going on around him, doesn't really begin to develop as a character until halfway through the first act, when he begins to learn about girls from his older brother, Stanley. From that moment on, Eugene becomes increasingly more interesting and, despite his numerous internal commentaries...
...their debts to lenders elsewhere--a cycle of defaulting loans would allow financial crises to spread uncontrollably, bringing down banks in Boston as well as Bangkok. On the other hand, however, there is a danger that the possibility of bailouts could create a moral hazard and encourage speculators to float high-risk loans, secure in their knowledge that the IMF will be there should the loans fail...