Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 40,000 balloons soared aloft, and 6,000 pigeons fluttered skyward. The blazing torch arrived-borne for the first time by a woman, Mexico's 20-year-old Norma Enriqueta Basilio Sotelo-to end a 10,000-mile odyssey that started at Olympia. After a final 21-gun salute, the games of the XIX Olympiad were officially under...
...people who were serious about hearing the candidate. The demonstrators had come early and taken the seats immediately surrounding the Bandstand, and that inner ring looked like the floor of the Democratic Convention, a sea of signs. The biggest was a bedsheet ten feet square that had been hoisted aloft right opposite the candidate's podium and read George Wallace Your Friendly Fascist...
...flickering light of hundreds of torches held aloft at East Berlin's Socialist Memorial, some 2,000 young East Germans chanted the oath in unison...
Friendship Pact. After a press conference later that morning, Ulbricht took off for home. Once he was aloft, the crowd of Czechoslovaks that had dutifully gathered at the airport to wave the East German boss on his way erupted into a demonstration of joy-and relief. They mobbed Dubcek, Premier Oldrich Cernik and Presidium Member Josef Smrkovsky. The Czechoslovak leaders responded by signing autographs, slapping backs and bussing the pretty girls. At one point, Dubcek grabbed Smrkovsky and turned his face to the crowd so that the people could see the lipstick smears...
Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney says aviation needs 600 new airports right now, costing an immediate $3 billion, plus $8 billion more in the next decade. Every ten days, 13 new commercial jets take off to join the 2,521 already in the air; 17 new private aircraft go aloft each day. Airline traffic is up 17.4% so far this year...