Word: hovered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become a highly organized international sport, one now dominated by Americans. Part of the lure of the meet is simply the Florida weather: only the hardest of the hard core like to jump in northern climes when winter is coming on and the temperature at 12,000 ft. may hover at 0°F. This year some 100 competitors from around the world joined more than 500 Americans to perform in the sunshine at Zephyrhills...
...easy work. The thermometers in the tunnels usually hover at about 100F, but temperatures as high as 120 have been reached. Supervisors must walk a tightrope between overheating the tunnels, which would make maintainance work difficult, and cooling them to the point where steam pipes lose their heat...
...black population of about 8 per cent, black enrollmentdeclined to 7 per cent for the Class of 1981 and went up again to about 8 per cent for the Class of 1982. Similar consistencies exist in the figures for Hispanics and Asian-Americans which both hover between 2 and 3 per cent over the last five years...
...vital is added to anyone's understanding of that classic figure, and Mercouri's performance in long scenes from Medea doesn't help much either. There is much eye rolling, teeth baring and anguished screeching, but no break in the clouds of self-absorption that always hover around her. Finally, the modern Medea's story gets told, the play opens, and the picture ends, leaving the audience no wiser...
Helicopters hover above local picnic grounds, trailing long banners promoting the attractions of working at different firms. The Sunday editions of the San Jose Mercury-News bulge with up to 50 pages of help wanted ads. Television commercials promise job applicants VIP treatment if they deign to drop in for an interview...