Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with its bombers in Britain, would still have to keep its pursuit planes in France, to protect an ally whose Air Force is inadequate. Germany could then strike in either direction, with its opponents' Air Forces split. Against this double threat. Britain last week extended its balloon-&-steel-cable barrage, warned its populace of dangers to come, waited...
Reaching the spot, searchers found cool, collected authorities, heard the true explanation: a barrage balloon had broken its moorings, and lest its trailing wires short-circuit power lines a French pursuit plane had shot it down. Parisians had mistaken floating fabric for parachutists...
Preparation for the biggest event of the Freshman year, the Jubilee, are reaching fever pitch today with the complete transformation of the staid Harvard Union into a balloon-decked dance hall...
...dilatory way, the French Foreign Office punctured the fast-swelling balloon of protest. After allowing German fury to grow for several days, the Quai d'Orsay called in correspondents and showed them...
...last few weeks, the Gallup Poll has shown that anti-German feeling has been waning. There have been less people who have felt that America should or would eventually go to war. Mr. Cromwell's speech in Canada, if it was meant for a trial balloon on American sentiment, found that it was definitely non-interventionist. But it seems that every fresh German move kindles the old fires, and appears to lend weight to the myth that Hitler is the only power in the world that can bring America into another World War. So it is with the invasion...