Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used in tracking missiles. For the U.S. space program, it makes the instruments that align the Saturn and Centaur guidance systems, the infra-red sensors that monitor carbon dioxide inside the Apollo spacecraft, and the cameras that photograph-and sometimes ride on-the rockets launched from Cape Kennedy. Its balloon-borne telescopes analyzed the atmosphere and climate of Mars long before Mariner spacecraft ever got near that planet...
Thirty-five men from Pennypacker Hall attacked a covey of defiant Whitman, Hall girls yesterday in a half-hour long water-balloon battle...
...addition to the finals in all the field events, trials in the shorter running events are slated for this afternoon. Look for the Crimson to build up a solid margin after today's competition and watch the lead balloon when the runners take over the field tomorrow...
...What really irritated Kosygin was that government officials in many cases had been forced to ride in dump trucks. Russia currently has fewer than 1,500,000 passenger cars, ranging from the tiny Moskuich (comparable to the old-model German Opel Rekord but priced at about $4,000) to balloon-tired Chaikas that sell for $12,000. But even if a Soviet worker could afford a car, he would have to wait five years or more for delivery under current production rates. Though Kosygin would like to change that, it is obvious that it will be 15 or 20 years...
...buzz-bomb and V-2 rocket projects. Director Michael Anderson sedately re-creates some rather tumultuous sessions of British officialdom in 1943, reducing history to a few thoughtful demurrers from Churchill's scientific adviser, Professor F. A. Lindemann (Trevor Howard). "It's a balloon," he remarks, peering through his pipe smoke at photographs of the Peenemünde launching site. And: "If it were a rocket, it could never get off the ground...