Word: hovered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overhead, huge glass chandeliers hover like Cobra gunships in a white tropical sun. The Los Angeles Marriott Hotel ballroom is a sea of white military formal wear, pink and blue evening dresses, candles and carnations over red carpeting. Nelson Riddle's orchestra swings into What Kind of Fool Am I? as Sammy Davis Jr. hails "our mutual friend" Richard Nixon, then reflects on the song: "I don't think anyone in this room has to re-examine their lives...
...plotting their assault on a ceremony that the parents of the bride had vowed to keep private. The National Enquirer, the Florida-based tabloid, dispatched ten reporters and photographers to scour the Riviera in quest of informants on the courtship. There was talk that helicopters would be hired to hover above the walled-in palace garden. A Paris paper engaged a motorboat to give chase should the newlyweds depart by sea for their honeymoon...
Califano presides over $182 billion, 36% of the federal budget. There is a certain clear message in those figures. Mayors and Governors now hover like bees around Califano. Welfare and school money and Social Security benefits help ease the local burdens...
...news broke like a shaft of sunshine through an otherwise stormy week for the economy. After seeming to hover around 7% for eight months, the nation's unemployment rate in December fell to a seasonally adjusted...
...Lafite Rothschild and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild ('71) wines, which sell in the U.S. for $25 a bottle. The appetizer: a tureen of caviar so large that two chefs carried it in. The dessert: a green, seven-tier cake complete with half a dozen doves that flew out to hover over the imperial plate...