Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moone (1638), in which birds called "gansas" dragged an astounded visitor there in a dozen days. Another early example was Holberg's Journey to the World Under Ground (1742)-a world of clockwork ships, male prostitutes and learned monkeys. The anonymous Aerostatic Spy (1785) described a balloon trip around the globe...
...take long for the story-and public alarm-to balloon. Atomic Energy Commission experts hastened to Fort Worth. Telephone wires from Washington began to hum. But it soon turned out that the news reports were superheated...
...street felt let down. The fight fizzed out of him like the air from a punctured balloon. "Attlee missed the chance of a lifetime," said a furniture maker. "We know we are in a tough spot, so it's up to. him to take tough action. We would back him all right." Said a salesman: "Attlee's a good man, mind you, but we want more than that-someone with go in him." Many a Briton still agreed with the junior minister who said recently: "The sands are running out and our heads are still buried in them...
...determined scientist always has new worlds to conquer. Professor Auguste Piccard, who broke the altitude record in a free balloon in 1932,* is nearly ready to try for the undersea depth record too. Last week 63-year-old Scientist Piccard told the North American Newspaper Alliance about the "bathyscaphe" (from the Greek for "depth ship"), his submarine balloon which will descend into the sea suspended from a steel and aluminum "gas bag" full of lightweight gasoline...
...average citizen could only hang on to the balloon as hard as he was able, try to enjoy the ride, and hope fervently for the best. But he was beginning to feel more & more like poor Mr. Thurston...