Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great trick-and growing danger-of such a scheme is to keep the balloon expanding, paying off one loan with another. But when SEC moved in and started investigating, there was nothing to do but get out-quickly. A month ago Belle apparently started systematically looting the companies. As a sample of his thoroughness, he even tried to get the employees' pension funds of one of the companies, Troop Water Heater Co. Though the bank that held the funds in trust refused to go along, Belle got partial revenge. All but about $900 of the final week...
...Trial Balloon. Since he was ordained in 1933, Carlos Cucchetti has rarely stayed out of trouble. When Perón first came to the fore, Cucchetti led 10,000 people in a protest march. When the Catholic hierarchy supported Perón, he blasted his bosses and was relieved of his parish. When Perón turned against the church, he shed his cassock and organized anti-Perón resistance. In July 1956, with Perón booted out of Argentina, Father Cucchetti went to Italy, talked over his idea for a Christian-Jewish brotherhood movement with Vatican officials...
National Council President Edwin T. Dahlberg of St. Louis reported wide support for a "trial balloon" proposal he had launched in the council's magazine for an interfaith "International Geo-Theological Year." Just as the International Geophysical Year is studying the physical nature of the universe, said Dr. Dahlberg, an International Geo-Theological Year might study "the relation of the human soul to the cosmic order." Scientists, philosophers and theologians of all faiths should be invited to exchange views on such questions as: C| "Do we live and move and have our being in God, or simply...
...tear or two, and three or four years of intellectual stasis behind him. His are the narrow shoulders upon which the nation expects to climb to the moon, to harness atomic energy for peaceful purposes, to solve the questions of sociological change, and to patch up the globular balloon for another generation of battering. He is also our greatest tragedy...
...string of odd items hit the sea at moderate speed and started shouting, "Here I am!" in four different voices. An underwater bomb exploded, sending sound waves to distant hydrophones. An antenna rose from the top of the floating balloon and transmitted radio signals that were audible 60 miles away. A stroboscopic light started flashing so brightly that it could be seen for 20 miles. A fluorescent dye spread over the water, making a patch of bright color to attract search aircraft. As a final touch, a shark-repelling chemical dissolved in the water. Sharks are fascinated by the recovery...