Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Islands to perform a magic show. He sent invitations to all the black diplomats and sent limousines out to have them picked up, and they all showed up and they hadn't been invited..." Which clears up the mystery of what happened to The Wizard of Oz when the balloon burst. 8 at Dunster House; there's a review on page 2, I believe...
...other, pausing only to draw breath. A nanny waddles past, pushing a baby carriage and cooing at the unseen inhabitant, while an agonized dog-owner watches his best friend lift its leg over the ankles of a policeman. Gradually the park begins to throb with activity: a priest, a balloon man, a pair of lovers, a mother dragging two children at the end of either arm. More than a dozen characters seem to people the stage, although there is only one man up there. He is all of them. He is Marcel Marceau...
Alice in Wonderland and The Red Balloon Saturday, March...
...Tigers, behind senior substitute Joe Vavricka and Mickey Steurer, pulled away, just as Penn had the night before when the Crimson threatened. At the end, the Tigers went into a stall and Sanders's squad, reduced to fouling deliberately, saw the final point-spread balloon...
...problem -stands the Nobel Peace prizewinner, usually silent, often indecisive. His personality has always been elusive, and associates say that it is becoming more so. He wants to be liked, and so he avoids personal confrontation.He remains aloof from battles or postpones dealing with them until they balloon out of all proportion to their basic importance. To those around him, he increasingly gives the impression of a man who is tired and bored, as if the frustrations of domestic politics are too much to bear after the heady sweep of his foreign policy successes...