Word: aloftness
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Since Led Zeppelin went aloft in 1968, the British rock has sold more albums than the Rolling Stones, played to bigger audiences than the Beatles in their heyday, and brought Atlantic Records $50 million in business. Much of that success is due to Zeppelin Manager Peter Grant, 39, a burly cockney blend of street smartness and business savvy...
From Decatur, Ala., to Windsor, Ont., tornado winds chewed up homes and businesses, sent cars, buses and even freight trains spinning aloft, toppled massive power line towers and wiped out whole families. More than 60 twisters flickered out of the sky over an eleven-state area, claiming more than 300 lives and destroying property worth nearly $400 million. It was the most devastating salvo of tornadoes to hit the U.S. since 1925, when 689 were killed. President Nixon declared Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia and Tennessee disaster areas. Vice President Ford, after viewing devastated portions of Ohio from...
...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...