Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jessie sat on the Gordon Linen sacks in the Radcliffe Quad putting forsythia into her hair. Suddenly she shot upwards and ran spring-like towards an oncoming Volkswagen. "Clipper!" she shouted, "I want to go ride the swan boats. I want to buy a balloon and blow bubbles and ride the swan boats...
...toothache snub of Harold Macmillan (TIME, March 9), worried British officials made it plain in press briefings that Khrushchev was not interested at all in German reunification, and barely curious about British talk of reducing troop strength in Europe. But ever since then, Harold Macmillan has floated one trial balloon after another about what arms bargains might be struck with the Russians. And when these notions have been shot down by Britain's partners, much of the British press has reacted as if Macmillan and Khrushchev had a workable peace formula that Britain's allies were systematically sabotaging...
...retort, Reischauer said that "the balloon which we would deflate in our allies' minds is one that we have blown up with our own hot air." Claiming that our policy with regard to China is "arrant nonsense and complete unrealism," he suggested that a slow change in American policy would give our allies time to adjust...
...honorably that its teams have won 24 games, lost 20. But to his astonishment, Thompson soon learned that football is no laughing matter-even at Brown. His phone rang night and day with anonymous threatening calls from sullen students. Curious to see how Brown would react to more balloon pricking, Thompson stuck tongue farther in cheek, called for the abolition of the Navy and the FBI. His phone jangled louder than ever...
...week's end, in a burst of judgment, the Mail decided the British recognition of Fidel Castro and his revolutionary government in Cuba was Page One fare. But by then, many a Mail reader cared little for such trivia, hurriedly turned to inside pages in search of the balloon girl and Reporter Barber in Tibet...