Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what premises to be the largest and most successful Jubilee ever held at Harvard, about 400 Freshmen and their dates will invade the balloon-decked Union tonight to climax a weekend of Freshman festivities which, in addition to the big dance, will include an informal dance, baseball game, and crew races on Saturday...
...Washington the ex-Ambassador to France, William C. Bullitt, is advance man with trial-balloon speeches; and Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. has long been assigned the problem of the U.S. ultimate peace aims-which he has boiled down to three words, "Peace without empire." And the President is coming more & more to depend on two ex-bankers Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, now on a mission to London, and Robert Abercrombie Lovett, ex-banker, now Assistant Secretary...
They emphatically deny that Hess is a traitor or that he is insane. Although Hitler knew of his departure he was permitted to leave Germany without official approval. An audience with Churchill to launch a trial balloon for a peace compromise was his goal...
...comes dangerously close to making unconvoyed American cargo ships vulnerable to Nazi torpedoes. Yesterday he disclosed to his press conference that American protectorate Greenland "may now be occupied by the Axis powers." Whether this is founded or unfounded, the American public gets a look at the same sort of balloon they saw during the Neutrality Act discussion, when he announced to the papers that he had sighted a submarine off the coast of Newfoundland...
Coupled with the Greenland trial balloon, Mr. Roosevelt made it "evident . . . from the discussion with correspondents that he views the neutrality patrol as capable of almost unlimited extension and a means likely to protect shipping as effectively as convoys." "Neutrality patrol" is rapidly becoming synonymous to "convey...