Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balloon queen sighed, she could not get any balloons at all. She didn't mind too much, however, because she remembered that "fans were made before balloons" and besides, "I made good money before they invented fans...
Senator Wagner had introduced such a resolution before, 32 days after Pearl Harbor. But that time he let the idea die, a trial balloon collapsed and brought to earth. This time he was determined to see it through. No one wise in the ways of Washington believed that he would take such a stand unless his feet were on solid White House ground...
Whether Schmidt's burst was bad-tempered carelessness or a balloon to find out whether neutrals were still afraid of Germany, the answer was the Zurich Volksrecht's headline: "Wir machen nicht mit!" ("We won't play ball...
...last week Randy formally abandoned his theories of a center party, explaining that he had advocated it as a "trial balloon." Commented the News Chronicle: "One cannot avoid the suspicion that it was an older member of the Churchill family who stuck a needle-possibly a lighted cigar-into the trial balloon...
...office of Tribune Managing Editor James Loy Maloney the night (June 6) when the Navy's first communiqué on the Battle of Midway came in. Editor Maloney is said to have humphed that the Navy was trying to balloon a skirmish into a big battle, proposed to put the story on an inside page. Reporter Johnston protested that it was one of the biggest naval battles in history. He laid before Editor Maloney a list of Japanese ships, gave him a description of the Japanese battle strategy. So Maloney put the story on page...