Word: floated
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...fact, a crack shot or a swimming champion. His only constant was his beautiful, flighty mother. She had expected to be a movie star. Her father had been briefly rich, and they had lived in Beverly Hills, California. At 16 she had ridden, smiling and vamping, on a float in the Tournament of Roses parade. She was down on her luck when she met the glittering faker Arthur Wolff. Long after she left him, remembering Pierce-Arrows and Chrysler convertibles but driving a dying Nash, she went to Utah with her troubled 10- year-old boy. She was long...
...trigger finger. The sacrament of slivovitz -- though some get there without it -- helps keep Serbs, both fighters and sideline supporters -- in that fourth dimension of tribal passion where heroic patriotism and great atrocity become equally possible. This is the dimension of tribal memory, drifting in time, across centuries. Grievances float through the dimension like ghosts, crying out for justice -- for the Serbs whom the Croats massacred during the Hitler years, say, or for those Serbs who died at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, when they stood against the Muslims' westward tide toward Vienna and tried to save ungrateful Europe...
...twinkle in the collective mind. At 47, she is still enough of a cultural touchstone to be of use to comedians when they need the punch line to a bosom joke. She might do a movie or a guest spot on Leno. But mostly, she's been a stately float in the Icon Parade -- the 50-tooth smile encased in antebellum shady-lady couture and a platinum hayloft of hair. Should we expect more of the only woman to have a theme park (Dollywood) named...
Dreams of an NCAA championship float through the air these days at women's lacrosse practices...
...from now with another appeal to sacrifice. Less than 48 hours after hitting up Americans for $246 billion in new taxes over four years, Clinton was already discussing the idea of a national sales tax as if it were a not too distant possibility. "I did not mean to float a trial balloon," Clinton said Friday, as the issue threatened to engulf his campaign to push his first round of tax proposals. Meanwhile in Washington, Clinton's Budget Director, Leon Panetta, brought up the likelihood of new taxes on guns, alcohol and tobacco. "It's a bit too early...