Word: floating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have been premed long ago if I had had to worry about money at all. People who are aware of the fact that little green slips don't float through the mail will tend to look for something secure," Wedum said...
...David's story-perhaps to kill him, or to sleep with him, or (with sledgehammer irony) to turn up being his long-lost trampy-heiress half-sister. But placing that demand on an item in a narrative is the result of our Pavlovian response to rhetorical conventions. Interesting people float into our real lives, and just as arily float away, but in hard-core art we demand that major plot details assemble themselves into discernible constellations by the end of the work...
...sound more sweet can float...
...ceremonies took place was packed with blacks who came to see the ragtag parade and oath taking that symbolized their assumption of power. On the way, the Druid High School Band kept cadence in the cold morning for the dignitaries riding in a mule-drawn wagon and the float covered with green and white napkins topped by a tinfoil telescope that proclaimed "Greene County-Focus of the Nation...
Another Merrill Lynch veteran, Dick Bradley, was able to use his market experience to float a $150,000 stock offering for his own restaurant. Bradley joined two former airline executives in 1969 to open Victoria Station, an antique-encrusted dining room put together from seven old railroad cars in downtown San Francisco. The partners have grossed more than $1,000,000, and have started a chain by opening an English pub across town and a Victoria Station in Atlanta. Bradley's company has understandably become a lodestone for out-of-work brokers from around San Francisco. One of them...