Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...races of the afternoon were the Beatle and balloon relays. An East House quintet twisted and shouted to a first in the Beatle event, in which the contestants had to don Beatle wigs and flippers, and then kick across the 20-ft. pool without using their hands or losing their wigs...
...Strong got his information from a giant balloon belonging to the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory that carried a telescope above nearly all of the earth's atmosphere. An automatic pointing device locked on the sun and used it as a reference point to focus the telescope on Venus. Then the telescope photographed the spectrum of solar infra-red light reflected from the top of the cloud deck...
Earlier attempts to look for water on Venus had been frustrated by the masking effect of the abundant water vapor in the earth's lower atmosphere, but the 87,500-ft. level where the balloon-telescope took its pictures is above nearly all of the earth's vapor. Thus the spectral absorption that it photographed was almost entirely free from earthside confusion. Says Dr. Strong: "About 95% of the water that we saw was on Venus...
...innermost tube (see diagram) goes into the stomach so that any escaped blood can be suctioned off. The second, with a balloon on its end, goes just inside the stomach, where it is inflated to serve as an anchor. The third chamber is a sausage-shaped balloon nine inches long, which is inflated in the gullet. Its pressure against the varices stops the bleeding...
Though the Sengstaken-Blakemore tube is effective in many cases, most surgeons and all patients hate it. It is inserted through the nose, which is most uncomfortable, and the inflated balloon itself is painful. If left in place too long, the balloon can become ulcer-producing, so it must be deflated after about 24 hours. The patient cannot swallow saliva or other secretions, so a cut is usually made into the windpipe for drainage. Understandably, the tube is used only in case of real emergencies...