Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further evidence of a Roosevelt turn to the right. Drew Pearson has a long and sometimes servile record as a pro-New Deal columnist, was one of the few journalistic apologists for the 1938 "purge" and the Court-packing scheme, has sent up many a New Deal trial balloon...
...Tricks That Worked. His first job was building a Cargill dream: a frame-less, sheet-steel grain elevator shaped like a balloon. To keep the unsupported steel from collapsing when empty, Jensen built it on frames, pumped in compressed air, pulled out the frames, let the air pressure do their work...
...Maybe he sells cigarets-back in Omaha. But he goes over like a lead balloon with the boys who have SEEN Guada, Buna and the north Tunisian coast. And a lot of guys who have been wearing the same socks for a month could cheerfully throttle the copywriters who created...
Fellow Traveler. In Los Angeles, Elmer R. Clark grabbed the cable of a run away barrage balloon drifting over his yard, rose briefly into the air, settled again, whipped the cable quickly around the bumper of his car, chased the balloon-towed car across the yard and out to the boulevard, down the street, into a vacant...
...cause intense pain to a man's skin had no effect on Tom's gastric mucosa. But when a spot on his stomach lining was stripped of its protecting mucus and sprinkled with mustard, it became very sensitive. Strong pressure with a glass rod or from a balloon inflated in his stomach to 1,500 cc. gave Tom a stomachache...