Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd of about 2,000 gathered at 1 p.m. yesterday to watch the Lampoon's attempted balloon ascension to the moon. The time seemed auspicious, the winds and temperature correct; but the attempt came to naught when a hidden marksman blasted the balloon to smithereens just before the take...
While Douglas C. Bunce '50 President of the Lampoon, read congratulatory telegrams purportedly from Douglas MacArthur, Jules Verne, and others, the balloon was inflated with helium. Meanwhile, the crowd continued to grow at the conjunction of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets. Bunce announced that Charles C. Osborne '52, well-known swimmer and aeronaut, would arrive with a motorcycle escort to make the free-balloon flight...
Rumors flapping out of the Bow Street Aviary last night suggested that a Lampoon spectacle would take place at noon today. Sources close to the Mt. Auburn St. comic magazine said that 'Poonsters were planning a mammoth balloon ascension from the steps of their building...
...ascension, it was alleged, would employ a Navy "skyhook" balloon filled with 40 dollars worth of helium, with 'Poon Ibis Charles C. Osborne '52 scheduled to be borne aloft...
...Pentagon estimated the proportion of Communist-to-U.N. casualties for the last six weeks at 20 to i. Said the Eighth Army's Matt Ridgway: "The allied ground, sea, and air forces have let a lot of air out of the inflated balloon of the Chinese military establishments. Meanwhile, in the degree to which we deflate her military reputation, we influence the thinking of millions & millions of people in Asia. Eventually it must react on the political actions of their government. This would be of tremendous importance...