Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several years scientists from the University of Iowa have been launching rockets from high-flying balloons to study cosmic rays at great altitudes. The advantage is that the rocket avoids most of the resistance of the atmosphere. A Deacon rocket, for instance, rises only about 15 miles when fired from the ground. When launched from a balloon twelve miles up, it has reached 60 miles...
...principle as a cheap and easy way of putting a small, artificial satellite into an orbit around the earth. The rocket would have three stages, he says, but the whole thing need weigh only 13,500 lbs., and it could be carried up 15 miles by a plastic-film balloon of 3,000,000-cu.-ft. capacity (180-ft. diameter...
...Where one muscle rubs against another or against some harsh edge of bone, the human body often interposes a bursa. Somewhat like a small collapsed balloon, the bursa has lax walls and a slick lubricated interior surface that equips it to absorb friction. Bursitis is inflammation of one or more of these bearings of the body. It is a common ailment. Nearly all cases are caused by some form of extra wear, tear or injury; usually, the victim is not certain about the specific cause. President Eisenhower does not know exactly what caused his trouble...
...they had not hit the magnetic chimney, they would never have been caught by balloon-borne instruments...
Thanks for your excellent article on Caltech and President Lee DuBridge [May 16] . . . The water-filled meteorological balloon did indeed hold a lot of water but did not reach from "floor to ceiling." As an observer to this incident, I can report that it stood about 4 ft. high, and had a mushroomlike shape and a jellylike motion. The most fun came when ex-House President Tom Stix tried to maneuver it through his 30-in. door. With success almost in sight, the skin of the tightly squeezed object suddenly vanished, leaving the mountain of water standing for an instant...