Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inflation Balloon Swelling...
...then came Virginia, and the balloon was punctured, deflated, and trampled into the sod of Charlottesville. Then too, came the injuries to Captain Vince Moravec and Jim Kenary that began a long, long chain of similar crippling blows...
...saucer" high over Godman Field at Fort Knox, Ky., three National Guard pilots zoomed up in P-51s to investigate. At about 25,000 feet, Capt. Thomas Mantell's plane started to spin, plunged downward, and disintegrated at tree-level. The "saucer" turned out to be a weather balloon...
Police and doctors told the rest of the story. Capocci was a balloon vendor who had lived in Stockholm for 19 years. He was mad. Ten years ago he tried to see the Italian minister (one of Ricci's predecessors), was received only by a clerk. He never forgot the slight...
Student Council expediency collapsed like a punctured balloon before the onslaught of class-spirited indignation as Council members reneged on their previous decision last night, revising the entire '48 Permanent Class Committee election procedure...