Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awed with trepidation at my limited ability." But his subsequent actions made it sound as if he really meant it. His supposedly brash, testy Army Government proposed to continue conversations with Washington looking toward "peace with justice." The Government-controlled Japan Times and Advertiser sent up a gaseous trial balloon offering all the warring nations a "last chance" to have Japan mediate World War II. Most startling of all, Premier Tojo's ostensibly fire-eating Army Government called for an extraordinary session of the Diet in mid-November-its first such session since 1937. All this scarcely sounded...
Unique among the 7,000-odd scholars of Cambridge is a mild young chap of less than average stature who is a philosopher, a psychologist, a photographer, a mechanical engineer-to-be, and in moments not otherwise occupied, a tumbling, balloon-breaking, white-faced clown with a putty nose...
...moment of its discovery until the "All Clear" sounds. Brooding over the Main Operations Board, from a perch in a glass-enclosed balcony, is the controller, key man of the setup, who determines the best way to head off the enemy. With him are officers in charge of antiaircraft, balloon barrages, searchlights and air-raid warnings. The controller, whatever his military rank, is supreme in his area. He shuttles planes about at will, cannot be gainsaid by officers in the field...
...Scout who goes ahead, trial balloon in hand, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion, whipping up sentiment pro or con whatever the President has decided the U.S. should be for or against. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the New Deal's Janitor, who cleans out the goboons and sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He captains the Purity Squad that keeps his colleagues honest. He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket...
Verne's life was as quiet as his stories were lively. A lawyer's son, he went to Paris in 1848, tried his hand at playwriting, lived poor, became a stockbroker to support his wife. After the success of his Five Weeks in A Balloon, he spent most of his life at his desk, writing...