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Word: ballooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first issue of "Trial Balloon," which appeared in yesterday's Gazette, contained news of Harvard personnel policies and features about employees written by staff members in the news and personnel offices...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: Gazette To Publish New Supplement | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

...Cornets. But the kidding is all in impeccable fun. Alex Guiness, as the seven (or eight) members of the noble D'Ascoyne clan, gets to be knocked off seven (or eight) times by a commoner who has it in for the family. Sipping poisoned port, crashing in a punctured balloon or sinking with his ship, no one has ever kicked the bucket for so many laughs. A fickle Joan Greenwood finally lands the mass assassin in jail for the one murder he never committed. Bouncing back in his jail cell, though, he chipperly narrates us the story of raucous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

...bottleneck in play on the closing holes finally took its toll on Fitzgibbons' concentration, as he sandwiched a bogey between three doubles to balloon out of contention...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Link Up in Opener | 10/2/1976 | See Source »

...Brookline is a psych-out course," he explained. "I think that people tended to get discouraged and when that happens you tend to balloon. The rough is as high as a cornfield. If you miss the green a little bit it's like your ball...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Link Up in Opener | 10/2/1976 | See Source »

...sets of Olly Olly Oxen Free. A family-style adventure story in which she plays an eccentric lady junk dealer, the film has her working with Movie Novices Kevin Mc-Kenzie and Dennis Dimster, both eleven, an English sheep dog named Obie and a 70-ft. gas-filled balloon. Miffed by the idea of a male stand-in for the action scenes, she has also been doing her own acrobatics, which have included dangling 100 ft. above ground from the balloon's anchor. In between scenes, she has even found time to pose for a cast picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 13, 1976 | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

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