Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoist those big balloons up through the hatch of the blimp? Nobody thinks of cutting the strings and letting the balloons just drift away as Gig holds on to Grover. Instead, Buttons takes a rifle and plugs the balloons one by one while hanging from the blimp by his belt. Eventually the last balloon goes splop-psssssssss. And so does the movie...
...manifesto, said the Rt. Rev. Stephen Bayne, executive officer of the Anglican Communion, could be "either the biggest lead balloon or the most dramatic document in our history." It calls upon the Anglican churches to share their financial and human resources for the good of the entire Communion, and specifically to join in raising $15 million within the next five years largely for missionary churches...
...busted it wide open. NASA's tentative estimate of the new record for winged aircraft: 350,000 ft. (almost 67 miles). Walker's speed was 3,818 m.p.h., close to six times that of sound, and as he blasted upward into the blackness, he trailed a small balloon designed to make air-density measurements. "Yup," cracked Joe, on his return, "must have got some lift from that balloon...
...adventurous surgeons have devised still other ulcer treatments. From the fertile mind of Minnesota's Wangensteen came the idea that chilling the stomach, by running a coolant solution through a swallowed balloon, might stop bleeding from ulcers in the stomach itself. It did. Then with his surgeon son Stephen, Dr. Wangensteen reasoned that actually freezing the stomach wall might cripple the acid-producing cells and thus keep acid from spilling into the duodenum. It does, at least for several months. After that, says Dr. Wangensteen, the procedure can be repeated-though in any but expert hands...
...getting there was half the fun for Donald Placard, 37, and Paul E. Yost, 39, both of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Engaged in ballyhoo for a French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed to the manner born. Said he: "It was a perfect...