Word: floated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concealed virtuosity is a Feld hallmark. To the ordinary eye, double turns tucked into simple curves of movement spring up casually from the current of music. Girls rarely hurtle through the air, rather they float by like Chagall figures. Then, in a sudden mid-air reverse, they switch directions altogether...
President Lowell took the Crimson's disapproval for what it was worth. "That/the House Plan/...would meet with opposition was certain," he wrote, "for that has been true of every advance Harvard College has ever made...Strange rumors float about, and the less solid they are the lighter and easier they float. Some people seem to think that the student is to be chained in a galley and fed with a spoon...
William J. White, executive director of the housing agency, explained yesterday that because of a weak bond market the agency is unable to float enough bonds successfully to close the loans on all of its projects, including the Mission Park project...
...nonprofit TM movement, new recruits are initiated in candlelit, incense-filled rooms. Trained teachers assign each student a personal mantra-a meaningless sound that must be kept secret. Students are taught to close their eyes for 20 minutes twice daily, focus on their mantra, and let their mind "float and float...
...though others have hopes that fight up and sprout through cracks. Characters dash off onto the ice floes of history--with the stirred-up sureness of manifest destiny or the desperation of an immigrant's flight, of a striker's decision to strike--and whether they come back or float away depends on their understanding of the terrain.J.P.Morgan understands it, or at least keeps himself so entombed in greatness that he can afford to. He is obsessed by the ancient Egyptians, by their religion and the idea that a colony of gods may be chosen to inherit the earth...