Word: waft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thus death became "leave-taking," a corpse "the loved one," who awaited burial after elaborate cosmetic treatment in a private, well-furnished "slumber" room. Subdivisions of the cemetery have such reposeful names as Lullabyland, Graceland and Babyland (designed in the shape of a heart); soothing music and inspirational messages waft out from loudspeakers hidden in the shrubbery...
...here," he said, meaning that he and White felt fine. At 50,000 ft. a drogue chute eight feet in diameter billowed out to stabilize the spinning craft, and at 10,600 ft. the white-and-orange main chute, 84 ft. across, blossomed like a giant marigold to waft the 3.5-ton craft gently to sea. Some 390 miles east of Cape Kennedy and 53 miles from the waiting aircraft carrier Wasp, the capsule plopped into the Atlantic. McDivitt was disappointed that it was not a bull's-eye. "I wanted to land on the after-elevator...
...York's Senatorial seat is mobbed at every campaign stop. Crowds turn out in extraordinarily large numbers for his rallies and tours. Shricks of "I touched him. I touched him" are left in his wake as a dozen policemen wedge him through frenzied mobs. Murmurs of adoration waft after him as he shakes hands through a formal dinner gathering in a hotel ballroom. ("Why didn't you kiss him, Gale?" "Mmm, I would have loved to.") Whispers of suspicion follow his speech to a middle class suburban audience: a man turns to his wife and cautions, "Just remember, that...