Word: balloon
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...another occasion at the 1904 World's Fair, Beals hopped onto a hot air balloon to take a bird's-eye view of the event, said Litwack...
...technique, called balloon mitral valvuloplasty, is performed by introducing a deflated balloon into the heart. The balloon is attached to the end of a catheter inserted into a leg vein. Once guided into a place by X-rays, the balloon is inflated, expanding the valve and clearing the blockage...
...patient who undergoes the balloon treatment can often leave the hospital after only two days, while a surgery patient must usually wait seven to 10 days...
...wonk who spawns 5- and 6-point plans as instinctively as other pols reach out for hands to shake.) Sheer dogged persistence kept him slogging past low points at which many another campaigner would have given up. In New Hampshire, when the Governor's campaign looked like a collapsing balloon, an aide reported that "his instinct is always to do more": more speeches, more interviews, more TV talk shows, more plunging into crowds. He did -- and it worked, then and later...
...sexual frankness. With everyone coming in and out, losing and finding themselves, reinventing, returning and displacing, the giddy delights of independence can percolate everywhere. Yet something has been lost. Think of all those wonderful words which are endlessly suggestive to the repressed ear. Words such as viscous, fluid, ballast, balloon, column, effluence, and dampness hide beautiful messages behind their innocent facades. In a literal environment they are not longer potent. What a loss to the imagination if you can't chuckle over your bun, or prize the profundity of eructation...