Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Often it was impossible to hear the Secretary speak over the shouting to roughly a third of the audience. Even before he rose to speak, the Law School professor who introduced him was at times drowned out. A balloon full of red liquid was thrown at Weinberger, who fortunately was not struck. Shouts of "murderer" and other insults were hurled at him throughout the hour and a quarter he was on stage. Through it all the Secretary attempted to give a standard speech on the Reagan Administration's approach to nuclear defense: simultaneous negotiations for arms reductions and modernization...
...huge black weather balloon marked "MIT" blossomed on the 45-yard line mid-way through the second quarter, and Techies disguised as Yale band members flung themselves onto the field during halftime and spelled out their school's name...
...implicated MIT fraternity did not come forward and take blame or credit for the balloon until later in the week. Although the responsibility was originally secret, says frat Vice President Victor J. Cook III. "They felt good about it and wanted to tell people, so they...
...There is a casualty list, and the chances of ending up on it increase with the risks. Balloonist Maxie Anderson flew across the Atlantic five years ago in his great silver Double Eagle II; early this summer he and Partner Don Ida crashed and died in Bavaria during a balloon race. In 1978 a New Zealander named Naomi James, 34, became the first woman to circumnavigate the world alone via Cape Horn, only a brief time after learning sailing so that she could share an interest with her yachtsman husband Rob. She retired from competitive sailing to raise a family...
...World War II, returned to star in more than 60 films, including Around the World in 80 Days, The Guns of Navarone and Separate Tables, in which he gave a 1958 Oscar-winning portrayal of a pathetic military impostor. His candid, bestselling memoirs (The Moon's a Balloon, Bring on the Empty Horses) abound with lightly told anecdotes of Errol Flynn's drunken revels and Greta Garbo's nude swims. Niven once described Hollywood as a "hotbed of false values. . . but it was fascinating, and if you were lucky...