Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abolish them if a corresponding move is undertaken by the NATO allies in West Europe." Moscow quickly quenched any flaming hopes over that issue by reiterating its hard line on the subject of Viet Nam, but still it was obvious that Zorin's bosses were floating a trial balloon...
...missile's three rocket engines) are vital additions to the language, says McNeill. He is equally impressed by such metonyms as "eyeballs in" and "eyeballs out" (describing extreme conditions of acceleration and deceleration, respectively), and he approves of neologisms such as "rockoon" (a rocket launched from a balloon). Unfortunately, metaphors, metonyms and neologisms-and the creativity required to invent them-are limited. They constitute only about one-eighth of the entries in official NASA diction aries of space terms...
...economically palatable 5% annual increase for the next 20 years as well. Barzel also suggested that the Communist Party could be "legalized" in a reunified Germany. His speech was strictly a personal expression, and had not been officially cleared with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard; thus it was both a trial balloon and the subject of domestic controversy in Bonn (see below...
...same time, figures released for April indicated that some of the swell was gone from the inflationary balloon. Unemployment was more or less static at 3.7%. Durable-goods orders declined 3% to $23.9 billion, and housing starts, after a good March, dropped 4%. Industrial production was up, but it was the smallest gain since last September...
...impulse to good account by insuring his life for $2,000,000 and letting himself be murdered. He does-and then meets Stripper Ursula, a girl worth living for. Fleeing a corps of assassins, the lovers go to the Himalayas and back by junk, ricksha, sampan, elephant, airplane and balloon. They survive shipwreck in a floating coffin, and even beat off an attack by a fleet of heavily armed Coca-Cola trucks...