Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes the story puts the emphasis on how the system might go wrong (Wargames, Failsafe); other times on the effects when--it's always when, never if--the balloon goes up (The Day After); and sometimes on how we landed in the nuclear soup (The Atomic Cafe, The Dead-End Kids). The way these works and also comes in three brands: the Ominous Warning ("Time is running out!"), the Barely-Averted Disaster ("Whew, that was a close one!"), or Total Doom ("I told...
...police motorcades escort them from location to location, local traffic be jammed. Sometimes the visit turns into a kind of Main Street Club Med: giddy committee members rode a riverboat up the Potomac, sipped champagne on an antique-locomotive ride to the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and donned balloon hats and leis to feast on pork and lobster at a Texas luau...
With the Christmas wrapping off, the compact motorbikes with balloon tires must have sent visions of roughriding adventure revving through tiny heads. But youngsters who roar off on their shiny new all-terrain vehicles had better watch out: the three- and four-wheelers can be fatal...
...Shell favors nitroglycerin patches applied to his patients' skin. "We don't have proof that this lowers the risk of heart attack," he says, "but anecdotally, I can tell you that my patients are doing better." Others have used bypass surgery (which allows blood to circumvent clogged arteries) or balloon angioplasty (to widen arterial passageways) against the silent attacks...
...inserted just under the skin in a series of ten to 15 shots. Used primarily to combat forehead furrows and the lines that extend from the nose to the lips, collagen fills in the space behind and around wrinkles and sags, much like the way air fills a balloon and makes its skin grow taut. The procedure, which stings slightly and can leave the face red for about a day, takes 15 min. to half an hour and can be completed during a lunch hour. "The nice thing about collagen is that the individual doesn't have any telltale signs...