Word: floating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...races will be held at 9 a.m. during high tide since at low tide there is not enough water to float a shell on the New York Athletic Club's trial course at Orchard Beach Lagoon in Pelham...
...Commission" would be appointed by, and solely responsible to, the mayor. It would conduct long range planning, handle all finances, choose architects, and select building sites. It would have a budget immune to amendment by the City Council, and it would be able to bypass city regulatory agencies and float its own bond issues without regard to the city's statutory debt limit...
Villard nobly does battle with the paper windmills of State Department bureaacracy. He talks of the rigid hierarchy of command, of the mounds of messages and memos which float around Foggy Bottom in ever-increasing amounts, and of the extremely compartmentalized nature of modern decision-making. With nostalgia he recalls the days before 1947, when policy was formed at the top in an atmosphere of pipes and good cigars, and when "Discussions were unruffled, wide-ranging, and unhampered by squads of technicians and specialists...
Some U.S. officials in Saigon fear that Ky's flair, and above all his rapport with Americans, may well prove his undoing. It was probably no accident that yet another spate of coup rumors began to float through Saigon behind the news of Ky's impressive confrontation with Johnson in Hawaii. "We killed Khanh that way," ruminates one U.S. old hand in Saigon, recollecting how the U.S. Mission backed Khanh even when it was clear that the Young Turks had lost faith in his leadership. "And we are in real danger," he adds, "of killing Ky the same...
...shoe of shoes was the one that was almost invisible: a clear plastic model decorated with baubles and bangles that appeared to float on the foot. Launched this week by Yves St. Laurent, who shows 40 pairs, the shoe is the creation of Roger Vivier, 52, Paris master bottier who now designs for nine major Paris couturiers...