Word: floater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Free Floater. In Talking to Myself Terkel, 65, is listening to his memories. What he chiefly recalls are the people he has met and the stories he has been told. As an autobiographer, Terkel is modest to the point of evasion. Given the chance to tell all about himself, he elects to tell almost nothing. "I'm constantly play-acting," he says with unusual self-consciousness during an interview with Ivy Compton-Burnett. "Here, with you, I begin to talk like you. When I'm with a Chicago hoodlum, I talk like him. I'm a chameleon...
During the bad years, if you took the "D" Train up to the Bronx and the Stadium, you could look forward to ducking firecrackers and waiting to see if Steve Hamilton would throw his famous Folly Floater (a high arc-lob which one day sent a bad-tempered Cleveland Indian literally crawling on his belly back to the dugout after he had whiffed three times on it; this the same day Bobby Murcer hit four consecutive home runs in the Next Mickey contest and Ray Fosse got hit by a cherry bomb which came flying from the second deck after...
...Folly Floater...
Later in the first half, the speedy Cardinal right wing streaked past Crimson left wing Bob Carey and cut to the inside. He barely managed to get a foot on a long crossfield feed, launching a folly floater toward the Harvard goal...
...debating whose turn it is to empty the trash, and having to trade rooms each time one of them wants to spend the night alone with a visitor. What happens when both of them want an overnight visitor on the same night?...Have you heard the stories about the "floater"? Don't end up as the person who tells one. Room next door to your friend in the Quad's genuine singles, and stay friends. Only the Quad houses let rising sophomores choose their rooms...