Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided on a director-general, an 18-man executive board and a plan of action. If the optimists were right, UNESCO might become a battering ram, capable of knocking down national barriers to international understanding. If the cynics were right, UNESCO would be just another grandiose 20th Century balloon, with a big cheer at the ascension but in the end just a bag of wind. One basic drawback: Soviet Russia so far has not joined...
Cyanide suffocates. It stops oxygen consumption by body tissues. It is hot and bitter when swallowed, produces nausea and a splitting headache. The throat tightens, and the victim gasps for breath, reels, stares wildly without seeing, is seized by convulsions, and falls unconscious. Then, like an expiring balloon, his laboring lungs and heart slowly collapse. Over all hangs the faint odor of bitter almonds...
...Dewey's trial balloon for Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum had been punctured, largely by the Republican press, which pointed out that General Drum was old (67), virtually unknown, without experience, and had only registered as a Republican a year...
...Germans laughed when Charlie Chaplin, as the Jewish barber, shaved a customer in time with Brahms. They laughed when Chaplin, as Dictator Hynkel, danced around the balloon world until it finally exploded in his face. But slowly the laughter thinned, embarrassed, shocked silence hovered in the stifling little theater. No one laughed at the concentration-camp scenes nor at Charlie's girl friend who hit a Storm Trooper over the head with a frying pan. There was hardly a ripple when the Jews matched pennies to determine who would kill the Dictator...
...price balloon had not torn loose from its moorings. But the cable was paying out at a steady clip. The Gallup poll found that 92% of U.S. citizens expected prices to continue upward for the next six months, a rare percentage of agreement on anything...