Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only threatened in the ninth. With one out in the last inning, a single, a base on balls, and an error on a fielder's choice, loaded the bases for B.U. Szaraz walked in one run. Then a pop-up to center and a ground out punctured the Terriers' balloon...
...answer is rather loudly demanded by TIME'S [March 30] story, "Maginot Line of the Air," about our recent series on Project Lincoln and the air-defense problem. TIME asserted that our "implication that Lincoln was the Government's prime concern collapsed like a pricked balloon," when subjected to careful checking . . . We wrote [that] the Lincoln findings are being "seriously considered" by the President and "actively discussed" by the National Security Council . . . Let us look at the facts...
...weeping Communists on a rooftop. They were jailed, but the strikes continued. On Easter Sunday, while pickets patrolled suburban factories, an uneasy peace lay over São Paulo's famed skyline. This week a settlement seemed likely in the form of a big wage boost-which would balloon both inflation and the Reds' prestige...
...exhibition, De Kooning celebrates woman in huge canvases covered with fierce slashes, stabs, splashes and streams of lush color. His women look as ripe as Tiepolo's baroque matrons, but they are fully clothed and mighty ugly, with ox eyes, balloon bosoms, pointy teeth and vaguely voracious little smiles. He pictures them in no particular setting, but somehow they convey the impression of being terribly tough, big-city, mid-20th-century dames...
When Cartoonist Robert Osborn left the Navy in 1946, he paid his respects to the military with a small book of cartoons entitled War Is No Damn Good! Across its pages strutted a wonderful, viciously funny parade of balloon-shaped generals and admirals, gorilla-faced noncoms and forlorn, tortured G.I.s. Last week Osborn finally paid his respects to civilian life with a book called Low & Inside (Farrar, Straus & Young; $3.75). If anything, the sequel is even deadlier and more acidly humorous than the original...