Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flying-saucer incident. So certain were an astounding number of Americans that a saucer did indeed crash in the desert near Roswell in 1947 that the Army Air Force command in Fort Worth, Texas, issued an explanation at the time that the vehicle in question had been a weather balloon. This past June, to keep the public calm, the Army published reassuring photos in the papers...
...comes to life and leads the toy soldiers into battle against the mice. With a little help from Clara, he defeats the mouse king and is transformed by Drosselmeyer into a handsome prince. After a lovely interlude in a snowy forest, Clara and her nutcracker travel in a magic balloon to the Kingdom of Sweets, where they are greeted by the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier and regaled by an array of exotic divertissements, ending with a beautiful pas de deux by their hosts...
Bursting Branson's Balloon The British billionaire and Virgin-owning playboy is at it again, trying to fly round the world in a balloon. The balloon itself, evidently, had different ideas...
...very next day the sponsor called up and said, "Fine. We'll print the lyrics if that's what you want," and my balloon went pfffffffffft. I did the concert, and the words to Solidarity Forever were there in the program, and the audience sang all four verses lustily, including, "They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn./ But without our brain and muscle, not a single wheel can turn./ We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom, when we learn/ That the union makes us strong...
...have a lasting impact. David Hale of Zurich Kemper Investments predicts a surge of up to 25% in Asian imports made cheap by devaluation and a contraction in U.S. exports of as much as 15%. The result could be that the U.S. trade deficit, now $191 billion, would balloon to as much $300 billion next year and fan a protectionist outcry...