Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cooperation with U.S. Army meteorologists at Fort Monmouth, N.J., they began watching on C-band while balloons climbed through regions of clear air turbulence and reported by radio what was happening to them. Radar readings matched the balloon reports...
...antiquated, obscure laws that are still on the books, you should have noted that at the vanguard of the movement to catch up with the times is Democratic Congressman Frank Thompson Jr. of New Jersey. He is fighting singlehanded for repeal of the 1892 law that forbids kite and balloon flying in the District of Columbia...
...ought to be able to urge their opponents to "go fly a kite" without being punished for soliciting the commission of a crime. And "what student of political science," asked Thompson in a speech on the floor of the House, "does not know the value of the trial balloon as an instrument of government? Are we now to label all our Chief Executives (not to mention aspirants to that great office) common criminals when they send aloft the name of a prospective Cabinet appointee...
Deceptively Simple. The argument began in 1958, when the University of Minnesota's aggressively pioneering professor of surgery, Owen H. Wangensteen, described a deceptively simple treatment for a notoriously stubborn illness. He and his colleagues get the patient to swallow a plastic tube with a balloon at the end. When the balloon is in the stomach, the doctors run frigid alcohol through it, at a temperature around -4° F. After an hour or so, the patient's stomach wall is presumably frozen. This freezing generally cuts down the stomach wall's ability to secrete hydrochloric acid...
...Macy's. It shouldn't happen to Gimbels. And it certainly shouldn't happen to Santa Claus. The sorry, dispiriting news is that Meredith Willson has temporarily lost his Music Man bounce, and Here's Love has all the festive gaiety of a lead balloon...