Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith chose the Quad as his home after his freshman year in the fall of 1970. He and his roommates didn't like the "preppie, water-balloon" atmosphere of the River; he says the 4:1 sex ratio there was "ridiculous, unhealthy, and led to screwed-up social relations...
...BUGS." Last month the Pentagon warned defense contractors to be wary of what they said in messages carried by commercial satellites because the Soviets are listening to every word. Using innocent-looking vans or "ferret" satellites or balloon-supported towlines, trailing from submarines, that act as 2,000-ft. antennas, the Russians pick up microwave transmissions from telephones, radios and satellites. Last year they installed huge eavesdropping antennas near Havana to intercept messages sent from the U.S. overseas. At KGB headquarters in Moscow, 30,000 workers specialize in computer analysis of miles of taped transmissions. The U.S. can scarcely complain...
...huge Coors advertising balloon floated aloft in the company's home state of Colorado last month, football fans booed in Denver's Mile High Stadium. Reason: for nearly nine months the Adolph Coors Co. brewery, the world's largest, has been the target of an unusual strike and boycott that are supported by a formidable, if somewhat incongruous alliance of activists that includes women's groups, Chicanos, homosexuals and civil libertarians. The issue is not wages but the right of privacy. In fact, the average salary at the company, which has been controlled for three generations...
...across an old prejudice or moral value that they can't handle. If the going gets tough, they split. They aren't really interested in changing society; all Pomme wants to do is sing the glories of women and pregnancy: "It's good to be a bubble, a balloon...a workshop for molecules...a cell factory...
...Christmas buying season started officially last week, with millions of shoppers surging through department-store aisles on the Friday after Thanksgiving. In New York City, the ritual began as it has for the past 50 years, with the balloons, floats and marching bands of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Without Dino the Dinosaur (the 20-ft.-tall balloon was retired after 13 years and sent back to maker Goodyear), the parade moved, as always, down Central Park West, ending at Macy's flagship Herald Square store on 34th Street...