Word: floated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Phillips says the KSG relys on alums to float trial balloons with potential candidates for fellowships...
...onto the blue-and-white rug under the dining room table. I am old, I am cynical, and I am tired. I learned last week that I am a Harvard student much more than I had guessed. I cannot separate myself from this identity the way I used to float away from long division. In the fourth section of the scrutiny, Christy and Tamika decide that they don't like Cambridge because it's full of hypocrites. I was there then too, but I didn't have the heart to tell them that it's like that everywhere. Just look...
...able to get into it, and we tied it to the tug with a pair of lines. We wanted to pass things from the boat--flares and stuff--to the raft, and then climb in ourselves. But one rope broke, and then the other. It was like watching hope float away...
Consider Mike Carr, an environmental engineer and paraglider pilot from Denver who last year survived a bad landing that smashed 10 ribs and collapsed his lung. Paraglider pilots use feathery nylon wings to take off from mountaintops and float on thermal wind currents--a completely unpredictable ride. Carr also mountain bikes and climbs rock faces. He walked away from a 1,500-ft. fall in Peru in 1988. After his recovery, he returned to paragliding. "This has taken over many of our lives," he explains. "You float like a bird out there. You can go as high...
...volunteers are also watching other preconceptions crumble. As white churches work with black families and black churches adopt whites, suspicions float away. "I've been in government for 25 years," says Leon Love, deputy director of community services for the state, "and no program I've seen has done as much for race relations as this one has. We didn't go into this with that goal--but these relationships develop based on people, not color. People get to know people, and then it's hard to hate a friend...