Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sticking close to the original Wangensteen cooling method of pumping alcohol, at a temperature near zero Fahrenheit, into a stomach balloon, Dr. Hitchcock and his team treated 173 patients, 172 of whom have now been followed for 18 months (one was killed in an auto accident). They report that 50 have minimal ulcer pain remaining, and 13 have none-a satisfactory result rate of only 37%. No fewer than 71 of the patients still suffer pain, 37 more eventually had to have part of their stomachs removed, and one died from a gastric-ulcer perforation...
...Theater of the Absurd ridicules both death and modern man's inability to cope with it. In lonesco's Amedee, or How to Get Rid of It, the plot concerns a corpse that grows and grows until it floats away in the shape of a balloon-a balloon, that is, on the way to nowhere...
...endless time, and it need not involve the old physical concept of heaven and hell. It does involve the survival of some essence of self, and an encounter with God. "Life after death," said Theologian Karl Earth, should not be regarded like a butterfly-he might have said a balloon-that "flutters away above the grave and is preserved somewhere. Resurrection means not the continuation of life, but life's completion. The Christian hope is the conquest of death, not a flight into the Beyond...
...supplied surface-to-air missile sites-this one just 52 miles northeast of Hanoi. In 90 dizzy seconds, the Skyhawks swooped on their prey at 570 m.p.h., slammed 500-lb. and 1,000-lb. bombs into the site and watched one SAM squirt wildly along the ground "like a balloon that the air's coming out of." It was vengeance of a sort for the five U.S. planes that have fallen so far to the long...
...longer journeys, Bendix and Boeing (with $800,000 in Government contracts) and Northrop (on its own) have designed balloon-wheeled mobile laboratories that can transport two men 250 miles. General Dynamics is working on a moon train made up of two-wheeled modules that could be linked together to form units of almost any length. General Motors and Bendix have been given about $400,000 each to build mockups of lunar vehicles. For fast hops-and possibly for emergency rescues-later explorers may have a "moon plane," a two-man flying platform with a range of 30 miles; the Government...