Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Promoter Neumann ordered the girl down. The couple refused. Then he offered to have a wedding ceremony performed atop the flagpole, and even threw in a promise of a free honeymoon if the girl would come down after the ceremony. Jacobson would have none of it. After 156 days aloft, he gave up his perch and potential profits last week for the woman he loves. Neumann, already hunting for another sitter, was philosophical about Jacobson's departure: "Apparently he thinks a girl is more important than sitting on a flagpole...
...presidential limousine, stopped, came back three paces and carefully straightened out the American flag flown on the right front fender. Jerry Warren, who has faced reporters' hostile questions of corruption and impeachment, made plans for a needed rest with his family. And Good Old Henry Kissinger was aloft around the world in search of peace, dispatching new statements every night that were jubilantly read out loud the next morning in the White House news briefings...
...government has budgeted $580 million in aid for the Cambodian government this year, most of it intended to equip the Lon Nol Army and keep its propeller driven warplanes aloft...
...They are subdued crowds-"laid back" in the vernacular of the present -but once inside they unite to buffet Dylan with waves of applause after each song. Roaring pleas for encores and repeated standing ovations are standard features. Lighted matches, signifying the rebirth of Woodstock solidarity, are regularly held aloft...
...boats that took part-square-riggers with skyscrapers of sail, brigantines, Dutch gaff cutters, topsail schooners. In between there is nothing but glorious pictures of tall ships, webbed traceries of cordage, acre upon acre of canvas, panoramas showing the vast fleet dotting troubled waters, symmetrical silhouettes of crews aloft on yardarms, looking like Chinese gymnasts, bringing in sail. The same great ships appear again and again, but no matter-in this case familiarity breeds content. For sailors this is the nonbook of the year...