Word: floated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Throughout the afternoon, small groups of people left the rally to join the throng of 300,000 that had come to watch the Inaugural parade. Some cheered when Canada's float went by, and booed the military floats. Some threw eggs at the President as he passed (and missed). Most headed toward the buses which took them back to Michigan and Ohio and Massachusetts as official Washington prepared for the Inaugural Balls...
...Some units will make a concerted military assault on the city's police and militia posts. At the same time, other troops will "hang peace flags and lanterns, fly flower-decked balloons and hold unicorn dances [traditional Vietnamese dance at a time of joy], entertainment shows and peace-float processions to create an enthusiastic atmosphere and rally a large number of people. In the event the enemy represses the demonstrators," the directive adds, "we will carry the corpses of the demonstrators to city hall...
...champagne. Mintoff drank heartily but British Defense Minister Lord Carrington refused to touch his glass. Relations were serene, however, until Mintoff's latest attempt to renegotiate the contract unilaterally. Last year's agreement, he complained, had been made before the British government allowed the pound sterling to float. Since this resulted in de facto devaluation, Mintoff said, he was actually losing much of what he had been granted last year. If he did not receive more, the British might have to leave...
Oxford finished third followed by Cambridge. Yale and the Egyptian B crew. A jubilant crowd greeted the elated Egyptian A crew at the float and cheered their performance which bettered by 20 seconds the last-place finish of the boat a year...
...motorized misfortunes, ranging from an elementary flat tire to an epic collision. Oddly, most of the movie is so slow that it seems to have been enacted under water. Watching Hulot (Tati) trying to make his way through mazes of automobiles is a little like watching a wayward eel float through a fleet of submarines...