Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration launched a trial balloon for its European recovery program May 8. Truman's mother was sick in Kansas City at the time, and so he authorized Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson to replace him at a meeting of plantation owners in Cleveland, Miss. Acheson omitted the particulars, but his general message was clear: the United States ought to be conscious of Europe's post-war plight and ought to offer...
...revolutionary who toppled the 268-year Manchu dynasty in 1911. Caesar's Roman legions tramp through a lengthy examination of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. The antecedents of Samos. the U.S.'s TV spy satellite, are tracked back across 100 years, when a balloon-borne camera produced an aerial view of Boston...
...Auguste Piccard put her foot down. Middle-aged professors, she declared, especially her husband, should not risk their lives year after year making record-breaking balloon flights into the stratosphere. To her surprise, Professor Piccard solemnly promised to stay out of balloons...
Instead Piccard designed a free-cruising "underwater balloon" which he named a bathyscaphe.- It had a small, thick-walled steel sphere to resist the pressure of the depths and a thin-walled hull filled with light, almost incompressible gasoline to give it buoyancy. For cruising, it used electricity from storage batteries to drive a small propeller...
...gulls can be heard in the morning, and there are crokers in the Lowell courtyard. By the Charles grow pussywillows; the balloon man is coming. Far and whee...