Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States, Hooch responded to objections that the sweet drink would obviously appeal to kids--changing its marketing strategy and no longer referring to its product as a "lemonade"--no such change is taking place here. In fact, Hooch hopes to be as big as the enormous lemon-shaped balloon it gives out as the grand raffle prize at its promotions. Next up for Hooch Russia is the introduction of two new flavors before the end of the year: orange and banana. One shudders to think about the promotional events they will come up with for Hooch Banana...
...never see any. Oh yes, I did meet the Bond girls in Octopussy when I landed in the balloon...
...Sept. 19, 1783, at Versailles, the first aeronauts--a sheep, a rooster and a duck--take to the sky in the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon. On Nov. 21, Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes drift over Paris in a Montgolfier, achieving the first manned free flight (2). Asked what good are balloons, U.S. envoy Ben Franklin replies, "What good is a newborn baby?" The English Channel is crossed in 1785, and ballooning soon becomes the stuff of daredevils (3). But in 1794 the world's first air force is born: warring France uses tethered balloons...
...potential $2 million zeppelin of a trial balloon floated last month by the Jones camp is still hanging around. Putting out the President's message while simultaneously claiming that he was speaking against the advice of Clinton's lawyer, James Carville hinted on "Meet the Press" that Clinton might be settle if Jones would agree to "never utter another public word or make another public appearance...
...Peter [Berkowitz] is the one and, pricking the balloon, he goes down and she has to go down in his wake....Politics won't permit otherwise...