Word: floats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...team is motivated by different desires, and it shows in their fencing style. Cetrulo wants to "bring the sport to its knees." So when he goes on the strip, he is only thinking of a quick and powerful victory. All-American foiler Tom Keller, on the other hand, floats onto the strip as a spiritualist. Unlike most fencers, Keller does not prepare for a match by using calisthenics; he does Hatha yoga postures. "They loosen me up, and calm me down. I want to eliminate all distractions before I walk out on the strip. I also float and dance because...
...splendid fellow, is not only a gossipist and eavesdropper but an aging whoremonger, moralist, printer and pamphleteer, skeptic, citizen, sentimentalist and night-prowling philosopher. He catches perfectly the queerness of the scene when he does reach the Bastille: "The fortress is being looted. From the high towers precious documents float down into the moat." He records the rainy grayness of Paris and the strange periods of calm when the Revolution catches its breath ("Most people lost interest . . . The price of bread continued to rise"). He sees the city's whores applaud a lynching "with their white hands, so expert...
...event, Miss Baez sang with the casual magnificence that is well known to Cambridge audiences. She sings without ever forcing a note, jes' letting that cool voice float out of her slightly open mouth. Although the humorous songs in the Baez canon are superb, the quieter ones are even better, and Mary Hamilton, which Miss Baez sings softly with very little modulation in volume, was clearly the high point of the evening...
Problem: Your newly acquired $70,000 family home in fashionable Cedarhurst, Long Island, turns out to be right under the most popular jet approach alley to J.F.K. Airport; the planes banshee by at 600 ft. so often that your 21-year-old daughter is driven autistic. Solution: float a war-surplus barrage balloon 1,500 ft. above the house and let the jets squall where they...