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Word: ballooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more startling is the success of Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which is currently being re-released to convulsed audiences in Europe. Interspersed scenes such as Hitler doing a balloon dance with a globe are obvious ridicule, with very doubtful historic basis. But the story focuses on a sort of polar struggle between the gestapo and "the ghetto," which seems incredibly funny even to Europeans...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Me and the Colonel | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

...short; the small, cotton-candy cloud could hardly qualify as a bona fide mushroom, and the rumble was barely audible 30 miles away. But there was a watchmaker's genius in every dimension of the tiny (less than one kilo-ton), sophisticated atomic bomb, exploded from a balloon 500 ft. over the Nevada desert last week, and it demonstrated how far the U.S. has progressed in small-weapons development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Blast? | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...conventional submarines. It can do this without danger to itself or passengers because it operates under water like a blimp. Its 50-ft. hull is a float carrying 28,000 gallons of gasoline, which is 30% lighter than sea water and compressible. The float does the job of a balloon's gas-filled bag, while the passenger ball hangs below. Water enters the float, equalizes the inside and outside pressure, and compresses the gasoline, reducing the craft's buoyancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Into the Depths | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...Balloon Breaker. To last through this kind of performance five nights a week takes a talent spawned by radio, toughened by Hollywood and burnished by the demands of an unforgiving clutch of television cameras. No comedian in the U.S. can boast a more abundant supply of the necessary skills than Jack Paar. He has been practicing them almost all his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Late-Night Affair | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...according to Wright, "Westernization" had effected what war and seism could not; there was no imagining "a more outrageous insult to the feeling and character of the original building-and to Japan." In Tokyo, Annex Architect Teitaro Takahashi, 66, had a stylus ready when the Wright balloon came along. Said Takahashi: "Wright's building is not at all Japanese, as he claims, and many of its facilities are now outdated. It was nicely designed for its period, but that was the Ricksha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 11, 1958 | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

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