Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combination cellar and playroom of the Bradley home in Pelham Manor. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley and their two children, Bobby and Susie, are grouped about their new automatic oil burner. They are all in faultless evening dress, including Rover, the family Airedale." After a sufficiently shattering amount of balloon dialogue ("Oh, Moms, I'm so glad you and Dads decided to install a Genfeedco automatic oil burner and air conditioner with the new self-ventilating screen flaps plus finger control!"), Bobby answers the door and "admits Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher and their three children, attired in long balbriggan underwear...
...widely scattered bases had received attention but nothing like concentrated attack. Chief targets were naval bases, commercial ports, oil dumps on the southwest, south and east coasts, and munitions plants in the north (Middlesbrough, Billingham, Greenock). London was bombed only around its fringes, suggesting the efficacy of its balloon barrage. Remarkable was the Germans' failure to attack Sheffield, where many of Britain's biggest guns are forged...
...qualities he extols, call him "The mad prophet of Teutonic superiority." Sanatorium wardens tap their heads and whisper "Vogel im Kopf" (bats in the belfry). When Fellow Dreamer Adolf Hitler sees occasion, however, he often revives Comrade Rosenberg from his traumatic reveries and uses him for launching a trial balloon into the disturbed European ether or even for making a definite pronouncement on Hitlerian plans. Last week, which saw the Führer acclaimed as the greatest warlord in history, was one of these occasions...
...floating to earth with an enormous white thing like a balloon above...
Intercollegiate air meets are nothing new. Thirty years ago, there were balloon meets among Eastern college students. Intercollegiate competition became national in 1935 when a dozen college clubs banded together to form the National Intercollegiate Flying Club, under the protective wing of the National Aeronautic Association. This year the N. I. F. C. boasts 46 college flying clubs, 1,000 individual members (more than double the membership a year...